Focus magazine has appointed the country's 75 most powerful people in the cultural field. At the top of the list is Louise Erixon (SD), chair of the municipal council in Sölvesborg. According to the magazine, the designation of Erixon as the most powerful has a negative meaning.
The motivation states: “With Sölvesborg as the experimental chamber, the first municipality with a Sweden Democratic coalition majority, she in the small format realizes step by step the nationalist colored cultural policy that the party strives for. For each test balloon, the limit of what is possible to do is widened. "
Focus culture editor Nina van den Brink explains the choice to place Louise Erixon at the top of the list.
“It is difficult not to see such a policy as a squandering, in the sense that it does not want the art to be free, but wants to control its purpose. That is why this year's ranking of cultural power became negative. This is where the power sneaks around this year, ”she says in a press release.