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Inger Støjberg is loved and hated, insulted and admired. On Tuesday night, he resigned as deputy leader of the Danish Liberal Party. At the same time, he runs the risk of a higher court due to a controversial asylum instruction.
Inger Støjberg was responsible for Denmark’s immigration policy for four years. It’s especially a press release that has created problems for you. Photo: Vidar Ruud / NTB
On Tuesday evening, Støjberg surprisingly announced that he was resigning as deputy leader of the Liberal Party, at the request of the party leader.
“Jakob Ellemann has asked me today to resign as vice president of the Liberal Party. I understand that, among other things. It is due to his lack of confidence in my line on a number of political issues. I would have seen it differently. things “.He writes on his own Facebook page.
The reason why one of the most famous profiles of the party was asked to leave, we find a press release from five years ago and an open power struggle in recent days.
Affected by case of five years
«Inger Støjberg stops the accommodation of girl brides in asylum centers». This was the title of the fairly short press release sent out by the Danish Ministry of Immigration and Integration on February 10, 2016.
There was a press release about the asylum reception where adult men were married to underage girls. The then Immigration Minister Inger Støjberg promised to do something about it.
Over the past five years, the press release and everything that happened before and after it was sent has been scrutinized down to the smallest detail.
The core of the dispute is the instruction to separate asylum couples when one of the parties is under 18 years of age. They should not be allowed to live together in asylum reception centers, even if they had children together.
The rule was to apply without exception and without taking into account the individual case. Precisely the fact that it is without exception must be illegal and in violation of the human rights convention.
Profiled minister
The question is what Inger Støjberg knew and did. As of Tuesday night, she has been deputy leader of the Liberal Party and was profiled as Minister of Immigration from 2015 to 2019.
She is seen as the driving force behind several controversial asylum restrictions. He outlined both the ghetto plan, which dealt with districts with a high proportion of immigrants, and the Jewelry Act, which was opened to confiscate valuables from asylum seekers.
As minister, she celebrated the first fifty austerity measures in immigration policy with marzipan cake.
When they both worked in the field of immigration, Sylvi Listhaug and Inger Støjberg expressed their admiration for each other’s work and visited each other to learn. Photo: Vidar Ruud / NTB
Party leader opens up to the Supreme Court
Støjberg is now risking a Supreme Court case over the instruction of the children’s brigade. The Investigation Commission has investigated what happened. Before Christmas the play was presented.
Politically, it escalated into space Christmas. Then his own party leader, Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, opened up to vote for the Supreme Court. First, independent attorneys must evaluate the commission’s work. The Folketing will then decide whether there are grounds for initiating a national court case against Støjberg.
Ellemann-Jensen has said that the Liberal Party, as a party of law and order, cannot let this case hang over them if something bad has happened.
This put the power struggle at the top of the party in the forefront.
On Tuesday night, Støjberg writes that Ellemann-Jensen has asked her to resign from the position of deputy director.
“I have been a member of the Liberal Party my entire adult life, and I have fought day and night for the Liberal Party to be as strong as possible. I love the inside of the Liberal Party and have had an incredible amount of good experiences, “he writes on Facebook.
The Supreme Court is a court that hears cases against ministers accused of having done something illegal in office. It is the Folketing who issues the accusation, which happens very rarely.
Commenters describe what happened on Christmas Eve as an open showdown at the party. Inger Støjberg is nobody. She is loved and hated and has been the party’s main spokesperson for a strict immigration policy.
– I’m very surprised. I did not know who had done that interview, and I completely disagree, Støjberg wrote on Facebook after the party leader’s remarks this weekend.
Photo: Inger Støjberg’s facebook page
– Misleading explanation
It was after one of the 23 couples who divorced in 2016 complained that the Danish Ombudsman took up the case. He said the investigation was illegal and criticized the way the ministry had proceeded. In addition, there are all legal grounds for divorcing partners where coercion or abuse is suspected.
The reason the case still haunts Danish politics is the question of whether Støjberg knew it was illegal and whether it has been explained incorrectly. According to the commission, ministry employees have said they warned Støjberg that the instruction was illegal as written.
Støjberg has had to answer up to 200 questions about the case in the Folketing. The Commission of Inquiry, which has investigated the case, believes that Støjberg provided the Folketing with incorrect and misleading information about the course of events. The commission also believes that Støjberg’s mention of four girls who should have been rescued by the drill was misleading.
The Commission has taken thorough action. Even then-Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s mobile phone has been searched, in addition to nearly five million data files from authorities and individuals.
Inger Støjberg rejects the accusations and argues that it is about fighting the problem of girl brides.
