You can watch webcasts from the Riksdag live and on-demand on your computer. You can also watch them on most mobile phones and tablets.
Technical requirements
Technical requirements for watching webcasts on your computer
In order to watch webcasts on your computer, JavaScript needs to be enabled on your browser. JavaScript is normally enabled, but if it has been disabled, you will need to enable it. Use the browser's help section to find the settings.
Technical requirements for watching webcasts on your mobile or tablet
The Riksdag's webcast service works on most modern mobiles and tablets. However, this can vary depending on the operative system and browser version you are using.
This is broadcast on the Riksdag website
All debates in the Chamber are broadcast via the webcast service. These include debates and decisions on proposals, interpellation debates, question-and-answer sessions, debates between party leaders, information from the Government, current affairs debates and foreign policy debates. The ceremony for the opening of the Riksdag session and elections in the Chamber are also broadcast.
In addition, public hearings from the parliamentary committees and the Committee on EU Affairs are shown. They most common examples are public hearings, public seminars, hearings in the Committee on the Constitution and consultations in the Committee on EU Affairs with the Prime Minister ahead of meetings of the European Council.
Furthermore, certain press conferences and other events such as the Youth Parliament and Open Day are broadcast.
View a live webcast
If there is one or more live webcasts taking place, links are available at the top of the home page on the main menu.
Live webcasts are also available via the Webcasts section. If there are several webcasts at the same time, one of the webcasts will be shown at the top of the page, and the others can be found directly underneath.
Links to live webcasts from the Chamber are also available via the Debates and decisions section (in Swedish only).
Debates and decisions
Watch webcasts on-demand
You can find the most recent webcasts in the Webcasts section.
You can also use the filter function to search for what you are looking for on the right of the Webcasts section (in Swedish only).
Webcasts
When are the debates available on-demand on the website?
When a live webcast is over, it will be available on-demand on the Riksdag website after approximately one hour.
Why does it take time to access certain webcasts on my browser?
Some older webcasts that are available on-demand can currently be experienced as slow to start on your browser. This is because older broadcasts are not readily available to watch. It therefore takes a while to prepare them.
Watch, listen and read a debate at the same time
In addition to watching a debate on demand, you can also read the record simultaneously. You will find the full record, in which everything from the debate is written down, on the debate's webcast page below the player. It can take anything between a couple of hours up to 24 hours for the record to appear after a debate. This applies to all debates and meetings in the Chamber.
In addition to selecting who you wish to listen to, you can also read what they have said, at the same time as the webcast is playing. You will find the record from the debate directly below the player, click to expand. The player will then continue to play the debate, but it will appear in a mini-player at the top of the page. In this way, the text and video are connected.
Which years are available on the website?
The following years are available in the webcast archives:
- From 2011: virtually all material that has been broadcast live
- 2007–2011: approximately 90% of the material that has been broadcast live
- 2006: approximately 50% of the material that has been broadcast live
- 2001–2005: a handful of broadcasts
Is a webcast missing? Report missing webcasts to riksdagsinformation@riksdagen.se.
Order older recordings
All sound recordings of debates in the Riksdag dating back to 1966 have been digitally remastered and may be ordered. Sound and image recordings are available from 1991 onwards.
Contact the Riksdag Information Service to order and older recording:
Telephone: 020-349 000 (national calls only)
Email: riksdagsinformation@riksdagen.se
Share, embed and download webcasts
You can share the Riksdag's webcasts on social media or by e-mail. The whole or part of a webcast can also be embedded on a website or in a blog. You can also download webcasts on your computer.
Share, embed and download webcasts
Forward webcasts
Websites can broadcast debates from the Chamber of the Riksdag live or public committee hearings by streaming sound and images from the Teracom Kaknäs tower.
Broadcasts