Liberal Alliance wants to summon a citizenship applicant who has shared Hamas-related photos on Facebook for a meeting at Christiansborg. The woman says she is willing to appear but denies supporting Hamas.
Woman Is in line for Danish citizenship, but Liberal Alliance has now turned detective
Liberal Alliance party leader Alex Vanopslagh during Parliament’s opening debate last week. He focused in particular on attacking Socialdemokratiet for wanting to reintroduce a bill that would grant Danish citizenship to 2,055 people. Foto: Jens Dresling
If there was a single theme that dominated Thursday’s opening debate in Folketinget, it was the government’s decision to reintroduce a bill from January granting Danish citizenship to more than 2,000 people without first testing their democratic convictions.
In response to the repeated attacks from the center-right parties, political spokesman of Socialemokratiet (S), Rasmus Stoklund, urged the opposition to speak up if it found potential problems among the 2,055 applicants in total.
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