Swedish top executive critisizes government nepotism
By pure co-incidence, new United Nations chief auditor and former chief auditor of Sweden, Inga-Britt Ahlenius, attacks Swedish corruption and nepotism on the very same day that I write on this topic – and present a solution – in a newspaper column, also published on this blog.
Ms Ahlenius, in an interview by Sydsvenska Dagbladet, critisizes the Swedish governmental administration for losing competence, big-time, by appointing government executives on a basis of political loyalty instead of true competence. Worst of all, Ms Ahlenius says, is that General Directors of government agencies are being appointed in a non-transparent procedure.
The decay has been going on for the past two or three decades, she says, and has turned Sweden into a soft state that no longer manages to take care of its own citizens. From her EU experience she especially remembers that the Swedish interpreters didn’t know how to translate “accountability” into Swedish!
- It’s said that there’s no corruption in Sweden. That’s not true, Ms Ahlenius sums up.
Anders L. Hansson
Read about the solution to the problem with governmental corruption right here.