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Pia Olsen Dyhr has appointed a special adviser who left the party in 2020 after facing #MeToo allegations. A local party branch has issued a statement calling the decision »morally and in principle unacceptable«. Olsen Dyhr is defending the hire.

Pia Olsen Dyhr’s hiring of a new adviser sparks fierce internal criticism in SF

The 39-year-old Lotte Kofoed has been a member of SF for most of her adult life. Foto: Mads Nissen
The 39-year-old Lotte Kofoed has been a member of SF for most of her adult life. Foto: Mads Nissen
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Pia Olsen Dyhr’s choice of personal adviser in her new role as minister for economic affairs and the interior has reignited a previously undisclosed #MeToo case inside the party.

The case concerns a former senior adviser in SF who abruptly left his job in 2020 »by mutual agreement«, as it was put at the time. That followed allegations from several women of inappropriate behavior and one incident of sexual harassment. Oversættelsesdisclaimer

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