I do not review individual persons, but I can establish that it puts the finger on the age discrimination that exists in our country and that I think we must work with, she says.
When SJ's CEO Monica Lingegård was fired on Sunday, it was motivated by the chairman of the board Kenneth Bengtsson, among other things, with her age. Lingegård, who turns 63 this year, was considered too old to lead the state-owned company forward.
At a press conference with the Riksdag's pension group, the Minister for the Elderly and Social Insurance Anna Tenje (M) calls the statement "pretty strange".
Kenneth Bengtsson later backtracked from his statement and called it "unusually stupid".
