The Radicals have announced that they will cast a no-confidence vote if Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen does not call an election before the Folketing opens on 4 October.
This comes as a result of the recently published report from the Mink Commission, which found that the Prime Minister acted illegally when, at the end of 2020, she ordered the slaughter of all mink in Denmark to stop the spread of COVID-19. Radical leader Sophie Carsten Nielsen has said “a new start is needed” after the revelation.
“The opinion of the Commission of Inquiry and the aftermath leave for me and the Radicals a very clear picture that the conditions for further good political agreements in the near future are close to non-existent,” she said in a press release.
Despite this, the Radicals will not support an investigation into possible gross negligence on the part of the Prime Minister.
“Although it is difficult, we must be able to separate law and politics,” Carsten Nielsen said in a Facebook post. “And in this case, we can not place the responsibility with lawyers.”
Additional reactions
Frederiksen did not have much to say to the Radicals’ ultimatum.
“I have great respect for the parties, and I listen to what the parties say, not least on a parliamentary basis, but I do not want to comment on when there will be elections,” she told TV2.
As far as gross negligence is concerned, the Socialist People’s Party and the Unity List have taken a position similar to that of the Radicals, even though the majority of the blue bloc has not. The Left and Conservative People’s Party announced that they will make pursuing a legal inquiry a central part of their election campaign.
If a legal inquiry is made and finds that the Prime Minister has in fact acted with gross negligence, there will be grounds for a national lawsuit against her.
Source: The Nordic Page