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Danish Prime Minister's troubled government in more distraction from personal issues

Thursday, 30 August 2012
The Danish government has a big problem in their hands, the economy which is hardly growing but the Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt's personal life has come under intense scrutiny.

Over the weekend emerged the prime minister emerged to counter  rumour that her husband

gay rumours Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has been forced to deny that her husband Stephen Kinnock is homosexual. This come after it was observed that her husband paid taxes not in Denmark but in tax heaven Switzerland where he lives and works over the week days.
Thorning-Schmidt was forced on Saturday to a highly unusual denial of the rumours something many determine that it is a personal and non politically related issue which began about a year ago.

The revelation came just a week before the election of last year. The information  came from secret papers from the Danish Tax authorities and the leak was reported to the police.

Now there is an ongoing investigation into the issues and yesterday they started determining whether some 43 witnesses will be questioned, including the accused. It was also to determine if Denmark's tax minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt's opponent, had affected the tax case so as to damage his political rival.

Rumour about Stephen Kinnock's sexual orientation emerged in the investigation into the tax issue. The Prime Minister's retraction has raised many questions in Denmark as to where the line of privacy is drawn.
by scancomark.com Team







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