Budgetpromenaden, or the budget walk, is a traditional biannual procession when the Swedish finance minister walk with a copy of the budget bill from the Ministry of Finance to the Riksdag (the Parliament), a distance of .
The minister is followed by a large gathering of journalists and various political activists and is usually given extensive media coverage. Sometime minor incidents occur, like in April 2001 when a 21-year-old threw a cake on then finance minister Bosse Ringholm.
The physical budget bill has traditionally been delivered in paper form, called "den nådiga luntan" (English: "the gracious tome"). Later social democratic governments have made a point of using digital storage media such as CD's from 1996, and later flash drives. When Sweden got a center-right government in 2006 the new finance minister Anders Borg returned to paper tomes. During 2017's budget walk, finance minister Magdalena Andersson carried a tome of 3 906 pages that weighed .
Notable budget walks 20 September 1999 - Bosse Ringholm's first budget bill delivered as both CD and paper tome. 17 April 2001 - A 21-year-old throws a cake on Bosse Ringholm. 14 April 2005 - Pär Nuder's first budget walk, the budget bill is delivered as CD. 20 September 2005 - The CD is replaced with a USB flash drive, that Nuder carries in a blue ribbon around his neck. 16 October 2006 - Anders Borg delivers his first budget bill as paper tomes in purple binders. 23 October 2014 - Magdalena Andersson delivers her first budget bill. 8 November 2022 - Elisabeth Svantesson delivers her first budget bill.
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