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Less than a week after the Danish general election, the term’s first political savage has emerged. Mette Thiesen announces that she is leaving the Nye Borgerlige party.
The announcement comes after an internal row in the party that Thiesen and her boyfriend were at the center of. According to the party, the boyfriend allegedly assaulted one of the party employees during the election party last week, after which he was allegedly thrown out of the party. Party leader Pernille Vermund says that it was not the first time that the boyfriend had been violent – therefore he was not welcome at the party either.
Thiesen takes responsibility for the incident, but still believes there are two sides to the story.
The party did not have time to exclude Thiesen from the party before she herself left. According to Vermund, she should have urged Thiesen to hand over his mandate to a deputy instead of becoming a political savage.