Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) will testify in the so-called investigation commission on 9 December.
This is stated in a list of witnesses from the Commission.
The first interrogation will take place on October 7, and the Prime Minister is the last named witness on the list. However, time has been set aside for further interrogations until 28 January 2022.
The mink case is about the government’s decision to kill millions of mink in Denmark because the coronavirus was mutated among mink and had spread to humans.
Led by Mette Frederiksen, the government announced on 4 November last year that all mink in Denmark should be slaughtered. A few days later, however, it emerged that there was no legal basis for that decision.
The commission’s task is to dig into the government’s handling of the mink case.
It is all parties in the Folketing that last year agreed on a commission of inquiry, which will be the first of its kind in Denmark.
The new type of inquiry is not like a classic inquiry commission, as is known from other highly publicized cases.
This is a form of investigation that is more far-reaching than, for example, a lawyer’s investigation with exclusively written answers.
The bourgeois parties in particular have been extremely critical of the government’s handling. As recently as this weekend, the chairman of the Conservatives, Søren Pape Poulsen, touched on the subject in connection with the party’s national council.
One will pursue the case, which he calls a disgrace, right to the door. Pape doubts that the government would have made the same decision if, for example, it had been about dogs or cats. Now it was about mink and a profession you wanted closed anyway, it sounded.
Source: The Nordic Page