Following the case of the first female prosecutor to wear a headscarf in Denmark | A sudden shift in the positions of the ruling red parties regarding the ban on religious and political symbols for prosecutors in the courts
The Radical Party reversed its stance within hours on the issue of prosecutors wearing religious and political symbols in courtrooms, and is now open to banning such symbols, including headscarves. Read more after the announcement.
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The party announced its position in a written response to the newspaper Ekstra Bladet, just days after the Radical Party's legal affairs spokesperson, Maria Georgi Sloth, refused to consider the ban a policy that the party could support.
The spokesperson had warned against exaggerating the handling of religious symbols, stressing that Parliament should not interfere in every detail related to religious appearance.
But the situation changed, and there was an agreement between the four parties in the government – the Social Democrats, the Socialists, the Radical Left, and the Moderates – to support the ban proposal.
The SF party had also changed its position earlier, after its legal affairs spokeswoman, Karina Lorentzen, announced that the party now supports Justice Minister Nicolai Wammen’s desire to prevent prosecutors from wearing visible religious and political symbols inside the courts.
Lorentzen justified the new position by the need to maintain citizens' confidence in the judicial system, noting that Denmark had already taken a similar decision regarding judges.
