In February, the Government announced that Mikael Ribbenvik will not be extended as Director-General of the Swedish Migration Agency. He will leave his post at the end of May.
One person who reacted positively was SD member Björn Söder.
"Time to clean up the Swedish authorities. Away with asylum activists from the Work," he wrote on Twitter.
The statement was met with sharp criticism from several quarters, including from Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M), who considered it "inappropriate".
"It's nonsense"
Ribbenvik has previously dismissed Söder's accusation. In Agenda, he is asked what he thought when he saw the tweet.
"I thought it was nonsense, of course. Because that's nonsense, he replies.
"When we are accused of being activists at the same time as we are accused of being heartless and brutal, it is obviously in the eye of the beholder.
He notes that the authority is subordinate to the government and has the task of implementing government policy.
"We follow the law. If we get it wrong, we have the entire court system on top of us. Nevertheless, it will be this debate and it is more about politics than about how an authority should fulfill its mission, he says.
Ribbenvik: No systematic errors
In October, Aftonbladet reported that several employees at the Swedish Migration Agency had expressed criticism on the agency's intranet against the policy in the Tidö Agreement, which had then recently been concluded between the government and SD.
"In the coffee room, you are allowed to think and say what you want, even at the Migration Agency," says Ribbenvik, and then describes the intranet as a "digital coffee room".
He stresses that freedom of opinion is important, as long as it does not affect the performance of official duties.
"Those who work in the state are loyal officials. It is clear that there may be someone who has done something that goes against what you should be doing, but not systematically in any way, he says.
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