Climate Minister Lars Aagaard (M) has been saved after today's consultation in the Climate, Energy and Utilities Committee. And group chairman in the party Henrik Frandsen denies that it is bought votes that have secured the protection. He says this after the consultation.
- There are no votes that have been bought here. We have 179 members in the Folketing. There is a majority.
- To start talking about some votes being bought here, I actually think is to discredit the Folketing, he says.
It was already clear on Tuesday that a majority would support the minister, after the North Atlantic mandates unusually interfered in the domestic political matter of delays in the expansion of the Danish electricity grid.
These are the Greenlandic and Faroese members of parliament Aaja Chemnitz (IA), Anna Falkenberg (SP) and Sjúrður Skaale (JF), who expressed support in a joint statement. The fourth North Atlantic mandate, Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam from Greenlandic Naleraq, did not want to make her position clear.
The independent candidate Jon Stephensen, who is a former member of the Moderates, also announced that he had intentions to support Aagaard. All of this led to speculation about what each of them had received from the government to save the SVM minister. In Jon Stephensen's case, there has been speculation about whether he will get his old place in the party back in return for his support. But according to Henrik Frandsen, the two cases have nothing to do with each other.
- This has nothing to do with whether Jon Stephensen is welcome in the Moderates or not.
- This has something to do with the fact that there is a majority in the Folketing that supports the climate minister. I can of course see that, it's a bit of a pain if you are an opposition that would have liked to have had a majority against it, he says.
However, the group chairman does not give a clear answer as to whether there is a place in the party for Jon Stephensen despite the journalists' persistent search for a yes or no to the question.
- The situation surrounding Jon Stephensen has not changed compared to how it looked last week, says Frandsen.
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