Reinfeldt I Cabinet 2006–2010
Four-party Allians för Sverige majority coalition (M+C+FP+KD) under Fredrik Reinfeldt, the first centre-right majority government in Sweden in over a decade, defined by the work-line (arbetslinjen), successive jobbskatteavdrag tax credits, the 2008 FRA signals-intelligence law, and the 2009 suspension of peacetime conscription.
The Reinfeldt I Cabinet, headed by Fredrik Reinfeldt, took office on 6 October 2006 as the first cabinet of Allians för Sverige — the four-party centre-right platform that had been launched at Högfors in August 2004 to make the Moderates, the Centre Party, the Liberals, and the Christian Democrats governable as one bloc. For the first time in over a decade, Sweden had a centre-right majoritetsregering.
The cabinet’s domestic project was the arbetslinjen — the “work-line” — implemented through staged jobbskatteavdrag earned-income tax credits and the RUT/ROT deductions for household services and renovation. In retrospect this was less a stand-alone reform than a long ideological reframing: a centre-right governing under a vocabulary borrowed from the historic labour movement.
Two structural reforms reshaped the state: the 2008 FRA Law extended Försvarets radioanstalt’s signals-intelligence regime amid sustained civil-liberties protest, and the 2009 suspension of peacetime conscription replaced mandatory military service with an all-volunteer force.
The Alliance won re-election on 19 September 2010 but lost its absolute majority after the Sweden Democrats crossed the 4 % threshold and entered the Riksdag for the first time. The cabinet reformed as the minority Reinfeldt II Cabinet on 5 October 2010.