Alf Andersson has chosen both the mobile phone and the computer as he thinks it is too expensive to own.

- It's a cost issue and I think I have too little use of it. But I come along anyway. I subscribe to newspapers, listen to the radio a lot and watch the news on TV, says Alf Andersson.

Stopped from meetings

In March, Katrineholm Municipality decided to lose the City Council to minimize the risk of the spread of infection. No substitute may be present and only 29 out of 51 members are to be present. So even if Alf Andersson had not belonged to the risk group because of his age, he would have been excluded from the physical meetings as he is a substitute.

Alf Andersson uses a reading board that he has received from the municipality in order to be able to take note of summonses and documents.

- I don't know if I have the internet on it, but I access all the political and am satisfied with the information I get in that way, he says.

See no problems with representativeness

Nearly one in four elected representatives in Katrineholm are 65 years and older. Something that Alf Andersson does not consider to be problematic.

- The advantage with us old people is that we have immense experience of both one and the other. So it's not a bad thing, he says.

Alf Andersson thinks that as a pensioner he has more time to get involved. In addition to politics, he is also a member of PRO's district board in Sörmland and the tenants' association in Katrineholm and Vingåker.

- You see different angles and get more perspectives on things that are good in a municipality and things that go worse.