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After a period of disputes, heated debates and threats of national legislation, former minister Inger Støjberg resigns as vice president of the bourgeois Venstre party in Denmark.
Inger Støjberg resigns as vice president of the bourgeois Venstre party in Denmark. Stock Photography.
She herself writes on Facebook that she made the decision since the party president, Jakob Elleman-Jensen, directly demanded it.
“I understand this is partly due to your lack of confidence in my line on a number of political issues,” he writes.
Inger Støjberg, who was also recently a spokesperson for legal policy for the Liberal Party, was Denmark’s Minister of Immigration and Integration in 2016.
The Danish Migration Authority was instructed by the ministry to separate all asylum-seeking couples in which one of the parties was a minor. Subsequently, the measure was illegal, since an individual evaluation of each couple was not carried out.
A commission of inquiry has found no evidence that Støjberg gave direct instruction to break the law.
On the other hand, the Commission concluded that it had been warned that the measure was illegal and that Parliament had been misled in the matter.
Hence, a possible testing process is looming over her as of late.
Elleman-Jensen, who has recently become increasingly clear that it is time for Støjberg to pack his bags and leave, has also made it clear that the party would support a Supreme Court process if there turns out to be a basis for it.
Støjberg says several members of the Liberal Party’s highest executive body asked him to resign during a meeting on Tuesday.
She is now under attack by former party vice president Kristian Jensen, who also held several important ministerial positions in Denmark.
Jensen says that Støjberg has chosen to betray Elleman-Jensen, betray the executive body, and betray the Liberal Party.
“It is not acceptable. It is incredible and unforgivable,” Jensen writes on Facebook.
He regrets that the Liberal Party has now ended up in a leadership battle again, but also writes that he knows from experience that such battles can be so infected that something radical is needed.
“Inger has not been convicted of anything in court. But he has been asked to resign because his actions are not compatible with being part of the leadership of the Liberal Party. I am sorry that he has gone so far, but I think it is correct that he has now retired, “Jensen writes.
