Frederiksen received an official rebuke for the episode following an inquiry this year.įrederiksen’s role in the mink scandal – and refusal to admit she made an error – has been consistently used by opponents who say it is evidence she can’t be trusted. He immediately shifted to an attack angle, though, addressing Frederiksen and asking her to apologise directly to camera for her part in the mink scandal of 2020, which cost mink fur farmers their livelihoods and the Danish state billions of kroner in compensation. He apologised for this comment during a TV2 debate on Sunday night, saying “sorry to Greenland and Greenlanders that I said something very clumsy”. Later in the week, Poulsen again put his foot in it after it emerged he had described autonomous Danish territory Greenland as “Africa on ice”. The Conservative leader defended his comments by saying he was drawing on an old Danish idiom, færre høvdinge, flere indianere (“fewer chiefs, more Indians”) to point out the need for more care staff. #fv24 #arbejde #dkpol #velfærd /EJxilKLpVz Vi har brug for både praksisnære ledere og fagligt stærke medarbejdere. Vi får flere ældre og børn og mangler allerede medarbejdere. Hvilke ”indianere” taler om? Har han ikke forstået problemets alvor? His choice of the word indianere as an informal term for such workers was criticised by political opponents as being disrespectful to them (but seemingly not to Native Americans). Poulsen was referring to a lack of care staff in the elderly sector. This word is Danish for “Indian” but means “Native American” but not “person from India”, which is a different word, inder. Hours after the election was called, Poulsen told television cameras that Denmark needed more indianere. He does not appear to have helped his chances with a couple of, to put it generously, heavy-handed statements. Like his Liberal party counterpart Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, Poulsen is running as a candidate for the PM job. Frederiksen aside, the party leader in the headlines most over the last week was Conservative leader Søren Pape Poulsen.
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