VIBORG: In a new election video, Inger Støjberg, chairwoman of the Danish Democrats, criticizes Viborg Municipality for being "well underway in plastering large parts of the municipality with iron fields" and claims that Mayor Ulrik Wilbek is behind plans equivalent to 28,700 handball courts with solar cells. But the figure is based on a decision from 2023 and does not reflect the current situation today, the municipality informs Jyllands-Posten.
According to the municipality, several of the projects have since been adapted, scrapped or reduced. Today, around 173 hectares of solar cells have been established, while work continues on projects corresponding to a further approx. 1,562 hectares. This gives a total of approx. 1,735 hectares – converted and rounded to 21,700 handball fields, it says. The municipality also emphasizes that the real area will be lower when roads, planting and other necessary installations are taken into account.
Roger Buch, municipal expert at the Danish School of Media and Journalism, assesses that Støjberg's choice of figures follows a broader political trend, where politicians select precisely the figures that can strengthen themselves and harm their opponent. "The figure may have been right two years ago. But it has little to do with reality today," he says. In a written comment, Inger Støjberg says that she is "completely on target" to reproduce the solar cell ambitions that Ulrik Wilbek has been leading.
Third election video in headwind
This is now the third time that Inger Støjberg's election videos have been criticized. First, she claimed that there were no buses running in Støvring on Saturdays, but TV 2 was able to report that a bus was actually driving on the opposite side of the road. She then spoke about school closures in front of a school that, according to Jyllands-Posten was not at all in danger of closing.
The chairman has previously rejected criticism in Jyllands-Posten.
Now European Affairs Minister Marie Bjerre (V) has also had enough. In a Facebook post, she criticizes Inger Støjberg for painting too negative a picture of rural areas. She believes that the chairman's campaign videos are talking down to North Jutland and overlooking the development and growth that is taking place in many places, writes TV2 Nord.
"I'm tired of hearing Inger Støjberg talk down to rural areas," the post reads, among other things.
According to Marie Bjerre, such stories risk scaring away newcomers. "'Let's talk about the true story of Denmark outside the big cities. There are actually many things happening that you can be proud of," she continues.
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