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Enhedslisten and Socialistisk Folkeparti (SF) pushed for Denmark to join the UN nuclear weapons ban. Now, SF has withdrawn its support for the proposal they once championed.

Parties criticize SF after U-turn on nuclear weapons

Mads Olsen was standing in for SF's foreign affairs spokesperson in the parliamentary chamber and was tasked with explaining why SF has changed its position and now opposes the proposal that the party itself helped put forward back in 2021. Foto: Jens Dresling
Mads Olsen was standing in for SF's foreign affairs spokesperson in the parliamentary chamber and was tasked with explaining why SF has changed its position and now opposes the proposal that the party itself helped put forward back in 2021. Foto: Jens Dresling
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On a January afternoon in 2021, when SF’s foreign affairs spokesperson, Karsten Hønge, confronted the foreign minister in the Danish parliament, it seemed as though the counterarguments could not quite penetrate the spokesperson, no matter where they came from.

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