The committee's chairperson Ida Karkiainen (S) and vice chairperson Louise Meijer (M) announced this at a press conference.
As you are aware, charges were brought against the national security adviser last Tuesday, March 11. It is not a given, but it is normal for the committee to then be faced with the question of postponement, says Ida Karkiainen.
All opposition parties have reported Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) to the Constitutional Committee for the recruitment and handling of the former national security adviser Henrik Landerholm.
Overlapping questions
This concerns four reports and the Constitutional Committee had begun investigations and requested answers from the Government Offices before the charges were brought.
According to Louise Meijer, the questions the Constitutional Committee wants answers to overlap with the questions to be addressed in the legal process.
The committee had intended to ask the Government Offices questions about what the prosecutor wants to hear from the security chief, for example, how it was discovered that the documents were left at the conference center, says Meijer.
When the question can be resolved in the Constitutional Committee, the two politicians have no answer. It depends on when the legal process is completed. It could result in a special investigative report in the fall, or the investigation could be resumed next spring, according to Meijer.
But depending on how the legal process develops, it could also take longer than that, she says.
The trial is scheduled to begin at the end of May.
Kristersson: Not worried
Prime Minister Kristersson is not worried that the issue will linger until the election year.
I'm not worried about that, this issue will be resolved legally above all, he says to journalists in the Riksdag.
Kristersson also received questions about the post that Landerholm himself published on X about the security incident. The post contains several inaccuracies, which, among other things, the Security Service has established in its investigation.
Did you know then and there that he would publish this post?
I don't know if I knew right then. That he would give his account of what happened, that was pretty natural in such a situation. But I was not involved in that process. As far as I know, it's his account and the account from the security department that he has presented, says Kristersson.
Henrik Landerholm left the post as national security adviser when a criminal investigation against him was initiated in January this year.
Last week, he was charged with gross negligence with confidential information.
According to the charges, he "through gross negligence has unauthorizedly disclosed" confidential information in documents that he left behind at a conference center outside Stockholm in March 2023.
Landerholm denies the crime.
