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Danish Agriculture and Food Minister Mogens Jensen tendered his resignation on Wednesday after issuing a legal order to reduce the country’s mink stocks from 17 million due to a mutation in the coronavirus, writes the MTI. I informed the Prime Minister of my intention to resign from my government post. I am aware that I do not have adequate support among parliamentary parties, wrote the head of the ministry on Twitter.
Today I informed the Prime Minister that I wish to resign from the Government. I can say that I do not have the necessary support among the parliamentary parties. #dkpol
– Mogens Jensen (@MogensJensenS) November 18, 2020
It is advisable that Mogens Jensen leave. There was no other way out, said Pia Olsen Dyhr, president of the Danish Socialist People’s Party (SF). SF is a parliamentary ally of the minority government headed by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. The opposition also welcomed the politician’s resignation, but a ruling was also raised on Frederiksen’s responsibility in the matter, demanding an independent investigation. It is not Mogens Jensen who should be solely responsible for a decision that is actually made in the Prime Minister’s office. Mette Frederiksen must take responsibility, Kristian Thulesen Dahl, chairman of the populist right-wing Danish People’s Party, read in a statement.
Danes’ confidence in the government was markedly affected by the decision to exterminate the mines. According to a survey by the University of Aarhus, in mid-November, just over half of those surveyed said they trust the government, compared with 75 percent in July.
In Denmark, they want to euthanize minks raised for their fur because they have been shown to have various mutations in the coronavirus. Authorities began eradicating the herd in early November, arguing that the altered virus could infect humans and that subsequent vaccines could become ineffective due to its spread. Meanwhile, although the government has hastily prepared a bill to allow the killing of minks, the opposition has said that it will not allow it to circumvent the traditional thirty-day legislative process. Opposition parties say healthy mints cannot be culled until there are plans to compensate the owners and workers of some 1,100 mink farms in the country.
The Copenhagen government said on Tuesday it had managed to win parliamentary support for the mink killing.
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