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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen should resign, it says on several of the country’s largest newspapers’ editorial pages.
However, her support parties seem to save her from a possible Supreme Court lawsuit.
The daily newspaper Berlingske already says in the headline: “Mette Fredriksen should resign as Prime Minister”. There, the criticism is described as historic and as a grenade shock for the officials involved.
“But the biggest scandal may well be that those who are the employers of these officials – the government – are not held accountable,” writes the lead writer.
“Just a resort”
Jyllands-Posten writes that there is a “before” and an “after” on Thursday 30 June, regardless of whether the Folketing ultimately brings a Supreme Court lawsuit against Frederiksen or not.
“Here and now there is only one way out for Mette Frederiksen, and that is to resign,” it says.
The weekend newspaper describes it as the government has sacrificed the civil servants in order to escape consequences itself. The newspaper Politiken’s editorial page writes that confidence in democracy risks being affected if the government’s support parties do not ensure that there is an independent investigation into whether supreme court prosecution should be brought. Kristeligt Dagblad is also in that line.
The Social Democratic government’s support parties Enhedslisten and Socialistisk Folkeparti oppose an investigation by independent lawyers about the grounds for a national court indictment. Then there is no majority in parliament for it.
Lowered entire industry
Frederiksen received sharp criticism on Thursday for coming up with “grossly misleading” information about the government’s actions in the so-called mink scandal. When a mutated variant of the coronavirus was discovered among minks in Denmark in the autumn of 2020, the government decided that all 15 to 17 million minks in the country would be killed, for which there was no legal basis.
The Danish mining industry has been a world leader for several decades, but went to the grave with the mass killing.