All the parties behind the Tidö Agreement, including the Sweden Democrats, have also been given the opportunity to give their views on the regulatory letters, which are thus the government's instrument to control the activities of the authorities.
This is reported by Expressen.
"SD has been given the opportunity to comment on a small number of regulatory letters, where completely new assignments are given to cultural institutions.
This is so that all partners can see that the agreement on 'arm's length distance' is maintained.
Incidentally, here it has turned out that we have a consensus - SD has not come up with any views at all," writes Parisa Liljestrand (M) to SVT.
Social democratic criticism
Lawen Redar, cultural policy spokesperson for the Social Democrats, thinks that the Sweden Democrats at the local level failed to keep an arm's length away from culture when they stopped storytimes with drag queens and Lucia trains with non-binary Lucia, and believes that it is worrying that the Sweden Democrats are gaining influence over cultural policy:
"In the budget debate, SD expressed that the major change in cultural policy will come with the next budget, and today it appears that SD has everything to say in the governance of the authorities and the content of the upcoming culture and media policy.
This spring, work will begin on the broadcast license for public service, what influence will SD have then?", she writes to Kulturnyheterna.
The Sweden Democrats do not want to appear for an interview, but refer to Expressen, where party secretary Mattias Bäckström Johansson says, among other things, that they oppose what they see as a "clear political side to the left in the broad management of cultural policy".