Minister for Digitization Caroline Stage (M) would like to run for the next general election.
She says that to the Alting.
– If I am allowed, I will run for the next general election. There are no parliamentary candidates in the Moderates yet, she tells the media.
She is one of three ministers from the Moderate Party who do not currently sit in the Danish Parliament, but who have been brought into the ministerial team.
The others are Education and Research Minister Christina Egelund (M) and Climate, Energy and Supply Minister Lars Aagaard (M).
Neither Stage, Egelund nor Aagaard has a constituency yet, and Stage tells the Alting that the Moderates have not yet decided who will stand and in which constituencies.
The next general election must be held no later than 31 October 2026. But Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) can of course press the election button before then.
Stage had a challenging start as minister. She surprisingly became the new digitization minister at the ministerial reshuffle in August.
The day after Stage was appointed minister, BT was able to describe a complaint from employees in the Moderates’ secretariat to the Norwegian Working Environment Authority about a poor working environment in the party. From January 2023 to the summer of 2024, she was political chief in the secretariat.
In BT’s article, an anonymous former employee said that the person “believes that Caroline Stage has directly facilitated the bullying and sexist culture”. Four days later, Stage apologized.
The matter was so serious that Stage considered retiring. She stated this in an interview with Ritzau.
– I definitely considered several times whether I could be in it. It was really a litmus test, you have to say, Stage said earlier this month.
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Source: www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
