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December 21, 2021 The Copenhagen parliament has expelled a former minister after a two-month prison sentence. Inger Stojberg, who occupied the immigration department, was convicted of illegally separating 23 couples of asylum seekers, as one of the spouses was a minor.
"The parliamentarians cannot be unworthy" She
has been expelled for 20 years because the parliamentarians - according to the Constitution in Denmark - "cannot be unworthy". The former minister, who said he was surprised by the sentence, today justified his measure again, claiming that he "wanted to protect child brides".
Trialed by a special court
Member of the liberal Venstre party, Stojberg was Minister of Immigration and Integration between 2015 and 2019, in the government of Lars Lokke Rasmussen.
She was tried by a special court set up specifically for her case, after the go-ahead from Parliament last February.
This is a very rare procedure for bribery cases.
Expulsion: the first time in 30 years
This is only the sixth time in Danish history and the second in the last hundred years.
Almost all of the special court - 25 out of the 26 judges who passed the expulsion - found the 2016 order to be illegal.
Only one of them spoke out for the acquittal.