After several months of digital desert wandering, 21 politicians in Greve Municipality must meet physically. This will happen next week at a city council meeting, where the citizens of the municipality are also invited.
This is confirmed by the mayor of Greve Municipality, Pernille Beckmann (V), to TV2 Lorry.
– It is important to meet physically when working together, and therefore I have for some time considered how we in the city council can meet without compromising restrictions and demands for distance.
– Political assemblies are allowed, and we have actually had to do so throughout. Now we have reached a place where we must return to an everyday life quietly, Beckmann says to TV2 Lorry.
The meeting will be held in Greve Idrætscenter. Only the mayor can decide how the city council meetings are conducted.
Greve Municipality states that there will be hand alcohol for the meeting, which will be held on Monday 22 March, just as it is a requirement for everyone that they must wear a mask when they walk and stand.
There is room for 30 citizens to attend the meeting and ask questions to local politicians. Pernille Beckmann believes that politicians have a need to return physically to work.
– Just as the children needed to get back to school, so do we politicians need to get back. And there will be four meters distance between the politicians and also between the audience, the mayor states.
Several parties are distancing themselves from the decision to hold the city council meeting physically.
– It is irresponsible that we ask citizens to come to a sports center in the middle of a corona crisis. So we do not think it is a good idea, explains City Councilor for the Unity List Mehmet Zeki Dogru.
Brigitte Klintskov Jerkel, who is the only member of the Conservatives in Greve Municipality, is puzzled by the mayor’s decision.
– I wonder that we have to meet physically when you think about the situation we are in. Greve has been number one and two with a high infection rate, and we have only just come out of the top ten. But we are still high, she says.