How a Mink Cull Sent Denmark Into Tuesday’s Election

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Denmark will hold early elections on Tuesday as voters struggle with soaring living costs. However, it isn’t sky-high power bills that threaten to push Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen from office, but the fallout from a decision she made two years ago. Her order to cull 17 million mink at the height of the coronavirus pandemic was condemned by political rivals and later found to be unlawful. Frederiksen’s minority government has tried unsuccessfully to shake off the scandal ever since.

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