A historic day in the Danish parliament: A majority votes to expel Inger Støjberg after 20 years in parliament.

The Danish parliamentary parties met on Tuesday afternoon for four and a half hours, ending with a vote in favor of a resolution to expel former Minister for Immigration and Integration and Member of Parliament Inger Støjberg, deeming her unfit to remain in the Danish Parliament after a court ruling sentenced her to 60 days in prison in the case known as the separation of refugee couples if one of them was under 18 years old.

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Ninety-eight members of parliament voted that Inger Støjberg did not deserve to sit in parliament, while 18 voted in favor of her remaining in parliament, including the Danish politician of Arab origin, Nasser Khader, and members of the Danish People’s Party and the New Bourgeois Party, who are known for their support of politician Inger Støjberg, particularly regarding her hardline stances on immigration and asylum issues.

Støjberg thus became the fifth member to be voted out of the Danish parliament since the constitutional amendment in 1953.

Accordingly, Inger Støjberg left the Danish parliament hall waving goodbye, and told the press that she would serve her prison sentence and then might return in a new election cycle.
Stögberg also loses her parliamentary salary and tax-exempt additional expenses.

Inger Støjberg had been a member of the Danish parliament for 20 years, since 2001.