The agreement on offsetting in the Riksdag fell through this week when two former Sweden Democrats voted with the opposition.
Parts of the opposition now want the vote to be retaken, but the Prime Minister is waving it away.
"This is entirely a parliamentary issue. We in the government put our proposals on the table, then it is the Riksdag that gets to handle how they vote on things," he says on his way into SVT's party leadership debate.
Affects the election campaign
He says that the offset system is practical, but that it is based on two clear blocs and is affected by the fact that there are now a relatively large number of mavericks.
"If you have nine wildcards and such small margins between the blocs, three mandates, it's quite obvious it could go either way."
The vote in the current case was about transitional rules in the stricter requirements for Swedish citizenship, which the opposition and the mavericks voted for.
To prevent the mavericks from deciding the issue, SD broke with practice and called in two disqualified members to win the vote, which they did by a single vote.
Social Democratic leader Magdalena Andersson believes that SD has now created a balancing act in the Riksdag.
"Ulf Kristersson needs to answer in what way it is good for Sweden and the Swedish people to have this party that creates chaos in the Riksdag come into Rosenbad to create chaos there," she says before the debate.
“May fall”
SD leader Jimmie Åkesson defends the action:
"The election results should be reflected in the Riksdag's votes and therefore we had to do what we did," he says.
Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist says that several of the government's proposals in upcoming votes "may fail" if they do not get enough members in place.
The age of criminal responsibility, which the government wants to lower to 13 years, is an issue where the blocs are opposed to each other and where a vote is expected to take place before the summer.
"It will be there very soon and it could absolutely fall if not enough people are there," she says.
Christian Democrat leader Ebba Busch says it is important to put in place a compensation system that works despite the mavericks.
"I assume that this will be resolved and that all eight parties will still fundamentally agree," she says.
Corrected: An earlier version of the text stated the wrong time for when the vote took place.
