Last Friday, the government announced that she had been forced out of her role as governor of Stockholm. The announcement came after criticism from JO linked to her friend recruitments. Now she is also leaving her post as chairman of Svenska rymdaktiebolaget (SSC), which she has held since 2022. Something Aftonbladet was the first to report on.
“As previously communicated, Anna Kinberg Batra will take up a position in the Government Office on Thursday. It is a type of position that the Ministry of Finance, together with Anna Kinberg Batra, makes the assessment cannot be combined with being chairman of the Space Agency/SSC,” writes Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson’s press secretary Niklas Gillström in a text message to TV4 Nyheterna.
“Kinberg Batra will therefore on her own initiative leave the role as chairman of Rymdbolaget in connection with her taking up the new position at the Government Office”, he writes further.
End up in the “elephant graveyard”
Kinberg Batra will be assigned new tasks at the government office, with a maintained salary of just over SEK 122,000 a month. The contract extends until 2029.
The department has been called the “elephant cemetery”, where directors-general and high-ranking heads of authorities end up when they have been forced to leave their previous assignments.