COPENHAGEN: A parliamentary commission is to grill the prime minister of Denmark Thursday over the illegal decision of his government last year to set aside all national farmed minks over fears the new coronavirus strains.
Previously the world’s leading exporter of mink, a Scandinavian country in November last year controversially decided to kill all 15-17 million minks after research suggested the variant found in some animals could jeopardize the effectiveness of future vaccines.
The Commission will seek to determine whether Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen realize that the command does not have a legal basis to the fact that appeared immediately after beating took place and led the country’s agriculture minister to resign.
At the time, the government only has the authority to request a mink farmers in seven municipalities affected by mutations aside their minks.
But an agreement was reached at low tide, rendering the law of government decisions, and set aside the national go ahead as planned.
Before the extermination, Denmark is also the second largest producer in the world after China’s mink.
A parliamentary commission specially appointed since April has been researching the government’s decision and all documents related to it, as well as the witness questions to dissect the decision-making process.
In the end, the commission will decide whether or not to recommend that this matter be brought before a special court judges cabinet members actions while in office.
Frederiksen has stated that he did not know the decision is not legitimate, and insisted that it “is based on a very serious risk assessment”.
“So far, during the trial, we have not seen evidence that the prime minister aware of the illegality,” Frederik Waage, a law professor at the University of Southern Denmark, told AFP.
“As someone who was personally very involved in the handling of the case …
it is clearly important to hear his own version of events,” Waage stressed.
– Deleted text messages – In October, the controversy around the decision was reignited when it was revealed that a text message Frederiksen of time it disappeared.
His office said they have been automatically deleted after 30 days for safety reasons.
But many politicians greeted the claims with skepticism.
Only two of 51 ministers and former ministers interviewed by the public broadcaster DR said they have the same settings installed on their mobile phones while in office.
The Commission asked the police and intelligence to help, but they can not recover the message text.
Media and MPs have repeatedly questioned Frederiksen this problem.
According to political commentator Hans Engell, he was at times interrupted the response has been a problem of their own, as the opposition has managed to harness the subject and keep it in the headlines.
“It is clear that the government and Mette Frederiksen very upset,” he wrote in the daily Berlingske.
In contrast to the variant or Omicron Delta, mink mutations had disappeared.
A few weeks after setting aside in the region of North Jutland in northwest Denmark, where many mink farms are concentrated, these mutations are declared extinct.
Danish Parliament then passed emergency laws that prohibit the breeding of mammals in 2021, which was extended until 2022, destroying the industry.
Mink are the only animals capable of good as far as certain contracts and recontaminating Covid 19th man, which is why it has been under special surveillance during a pandemic.
The Commission will report its findings in April 2022.