In a call on social media, they demand that the culture budget be increased from the current 0.6 percent to 1 percent of the state budget, writes Dagens Nyheter.
The initiators are theatre publisher Berit Gullberg and Henrik von Sydow. According to Gullberg, the signatories include both Moderates and Left Party members.
Everyone's belief is that no party has raised the cultural issue, she tells DN.
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Tommy Körberg is worried about young musicians.
"If you start cutting back on support for folk high schools, you can expect to end up with a dumber population. But it is generally known that dumb people are easier to govern," he tells DN.
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