It is “a storm in a glass of water” that the Liberal parliamentary group should disagree about the debate on sexism and violations that has flared up in recent weeks.
This is what the party’s group chairman, Karsten Lauritzen, says after a group meeting on Thursday morning. He accuses the press of running the debate.
Lauritzen also refers to a post on the social media Instagram, which chairman Jakob Ellemann-Jensen made last week, where he unequivocally backed the fight against sexism.
– Basically, there is no disagreement in the Liberal Party’s parliamentary group, he says.
– We have agreed – I expect everyone in the Liberal Party’s parliamentary group to think – as Ellemann wrote on social media – that we take this sexism debate super seriously.
The unrest surrounding the Liberal Party’s position on the issue of sexism began to simmer last week, when Deputy Chairman Inger Støjberg made a Facebook post that she thinks the debate had gone “over thread”.
It has made several Liberals long for the deputy chairman.
Støjberg’s criticism is that ordinary compliments risk being perceived as sexism.
Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, on the other hand, has written that the debate is not about not “giving a compliment anymore”, but about paying attention to sexism.
– We have some in the Liberal Party and also in our hinterland who are looking for a conflict. But they must not participate, because in the Liberal Party we take this debate very seriously, says Karsten Lauritzen.
– We do it at Christiansborg, we do it in our parliamentary group, and so does our party chairman, who wrote a very clever post on social media.
– And that is what I have concluded to the group, and that is what the Liberal parliamentary group believes.
Lauritzen also refers to a post on the social media Instagram, which chairman Jakob Ellemann-Jensen made last week, where he unequivocally backed the fight against sexism.
– Basically, there is no disagreement in the Liberal Party’s parliamentary group, he says.
– We have agreed – I expect everyone in the Liberal Party’s parliamentary group to think – as Ellemann wrote on social media – that we take this sexism debate super seriously.
The unrest surrounding the Liberal Party’s position on the sexism issue began to smolder last week, when Deputy Chairman Inger Støjberg made a Facebook post that she thinks the debate had gone “over thread”.
It has made several Liberals long for the deputy chairman.
Støjberg’s criticism is that ordinary compliments risk being perceived as sexism.
Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, on the other hand, has written that the debate is not about not “giving a compliment anymore”, but about paying attention to sexism.
– We have some in the Liberal Party and also in our hinterland who are looking for a conflict. But they must not participate, because in the Liberal Party we take this debate very seriously, says Karsten Lauritzen.
– We do it at Christiansborg, we do it in our parliamentary group, and so does our party chairman, who wrote a very clever post on social media.
– And that is what I have concluded to the group, and that is what the Liberal parliamentary group believes.
Source: The Nordic Page