The chairman of the Danish People's Party, Morten Messerschmidt, is withdrawing the party from the climate law. Messerschmidt writes this on the social media X, where he has shared pictures of a text message that he has sent to Climate and Energy Minister Lars Aagaard (M).
- We will continue to work within the conciliation circles in which we are a part, he writes in the text message and continues:
- But we will no longer take overall responsibility for the climate policy that is being pursued, which is all too often dictated by the left's extreme desires to make it more expensive to be a Dane and to transform more and more of the Danish landscape into barren solar cell deserts.
The final straw was the agricultural agreement on, among other things, a CO2 tax, which was presented on Monday evening by the green tripartite party. He elaborates on this to Ritzau:
- Recent years have offered a lot of taxes and duties. Enough is enough. In my opinion, climate policy cannot be equated with just constantly raising taxes and making it more expensive to be a Dane, he says.
Minister reacts
During the election campaign leading up to the EU parliamentary elections in early June, Messerschmidt's criticism of climate policy became too much for Lars Aagaard. He wanted the DF chairman to take a final position on whether he would participate in the political climate agreements.
Messerschmidt had previously announced that he would withdraw the Danish People's Party from the agreement on the Climate Act if a future CO2 tax on agriculture ended up costing just one job.
The tripartite agreement will cost around 1,000 jobs in the agricultural sector. This is the assessment from the Ministry of Finance, according to Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Jacob Jensen (V).
However, he expects that a "similar number of jobs" will be created elsewhere as a result of the agreement. This could include afforestation and various technical facilities.
Too expensive
Calculations from the Ministry of Economic Affairs also show that the price of a package of minced beef will be one krone higher in 2030 as a result of the agreement.
It is not the individual krone on minced beef that makes the difference, but various taxes that add up for ordinary people's finances, says Messerschmidt.
- If this were the only thing, we would not have taken this consequence, he says.
- But this comes on top of flight taxes, electricity taxes, diesel taxes, new requirements for homes that mean you have to spend hundreds of thousands of kroner on renovations and so on and so forth, he adds.
When asked if he had expected that the tripartite agreement would not cost the Danes a single krone or job, he refers to the Prime Minister's previous words.
- During the election campaign, we had Mette Frederiksen's word that this tax should not make food more expensive for single mothers, he says.
- We can see that it will become more expensive. Not as much as one might have feared, but still more expensive, he says.
The Minister for Climate is not surprised by the announcement from Messerschmidt. He writes this on X.
- The day after we have made a historic tripartite agreement, where agriculture and the Danish Nature Conservation Association stand side by side and take responsibility, Morten Messerschmidt is now finally confessing his color - and the color is blacker than black.
- Not surprising. Yes, yes, continue, writes Lars Aagaard.
The Climate Act was passed in 2019 by a broad political majority. It consisted of the Social Democrats, the Liberal Party, the Danish People's Party, the Radical Party, the Socialist Party, the Unity Party, the Conservative Party and the Alternative.
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