“I Don’t Even Know If the State Knows I Exist”
Translated from Swedish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Artist Ernst Billgren, 68, says he has not decided which party to support in the election.
- He plans to make his choice only when he enters the voting booth, continuing his habit of deciding at the last moment.
- Billgren is the final guest in Svenska Dagbladet’s “Election Emergency Room” series.
“I don’t even know if the state knows I exist.” That is how artist Ernst Billgren describes his relationship with politics, while still refusing to say which party he will vote for.
Billgren, 68, is the seventh and final guest in Svenska Dagbladet’s “Election Emergency Room,” a series in which well-known Swedes discuss their thoughts ahead of election day with political reporter Torbjörn Nilsson.
I don’t even know if the state knows I exist.
The final slot may suit him particularly well. Billgren usually makes up his mind at the last possible moment, when he is standing in the voting booth and preparing to place his ballot in the envelope. This time, too, he says he has not yet chosen a party.
In fact, he says he would rather not have an opinion at all. “A politics without opinions would be fantastic!” he says.
A politics without opinions would be fantastic!
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Originally published by Svenska Dagbladet in Swedish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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