Lawen Redar is critical that not all perspectives are included.
Since it does not intend to include the perspectives of minorities, says Lawen Redar to Swedish Radio's Culture News.
Last week, Minister of Culture Parisa Liljestrand (The Moderate Party) commented on the committee's work in the Riksdag and stated that the investigator Lars Trädgårdh "has expressed himself inappropriately in contact with parts of the national minorities", reports Culture News.
Subsequently, the Minister of Culture's State Secretary has tried to get the committee's chairman to more clearly follow the government's directives. Lawen Redar believes that the government is thereby deviating from its promise of "double arm's length distance" between politics and cultural life.
Now they are not satisfied with how the investigator is working and then they should start getting involved in the content as well. It is a very strange work that is going on at the Ministry of Culture, says Lawen Redar to Culture News.
In the interpellation debate in the Riksdag on Friday, Minister of Culture Parisa Liljestrand explained that she thought it was unfortunate that the chairman of the committee had expressed himself inappropriately.
That's why my State Secretary contacted the chairman of the investigation, so that the work is managed according to our directives, said Parisa Liljestrand.
She also claimed that this does not in any way ideologically influence the committee's work, but that it is still "double arm's length distance" that applies.
Corrected: In an earlier version, there was an error regarding the directive.
