A majority in the Danish Parliament has confidence in the Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities Lars Aagaard (M). This is confirmed after a vote of no confidence in the Danish Parliament. 86 voted in favor of Aagaard continuing as minister. 85 voted in favor of his resignation. 1 voted blank, meaning neither for nor against.
If a majority in the Danish Parliament had no longer had confidence in Aagaard, he would have been forced to resign. The vote took place as a consequence of the case in which Aagaard withheld information about delays in the electricity grid from the Danish Parliament.
- I am focused on achieving results for the Danes and the green transition. Next week we will make it better to be an electricity customer in Denmark, make it safer, and then we will move forward with offshore wind, and I am very much looking forward to that, says Aagaard after the vote.
Before the vote, it was already clear that Aagaard was protected as minister, even though the opposition has expressed that it no longer has confidence in Aagaard. However, the protection was to be definitively secured at the vote, where the government's supporting mandates were to physically appear in the Folketingshallen to secure Aagaard's job.
The government has lost its domestic political majority, but three North Atlantic mandates, among others, support the government in the Aagaard case and therefore the minister was secured. Greenlandic Aaja Chemnitz (IA) and the two Faroese mandates in the Folketing, Anna Falkenberg (SP) and Sjúrður Skaale (JF), support the government in the case.
It was another independent, Theresa Scavenius, who chose to abstain - that is, neither for one thing nor the other - in the vote. Independents Jeppe Søe and Mike Fonseca, both with a past with the Moderates, supported the opposition in the matter.
The Greenlandic member of parliament Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam (Naleraq) had proclaimed that she would probably vote abstention, but her vote was not registered in the vote.
- I didn't vote at all. I don't know if there is any difference, but I didn't press any buttons, says Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam, who, in contrast to the other North Atlantic mandates in the Folketing, did not support the government with a vote.
It is extremely rare that there are votes of no confidence in the Folketingshallen. The most recent was in 2006, when the then conservative consumer minister Lars Barfoed survived.
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