Independent MP and former member of the Moderates Jon Stephensen tells Ekstra Bladet that senior figures in the Moderate Party offered him over a million kroner to give up his seat. (Archive photo). Photo: Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix
Jon Stephensen: Moderates offered 1.3 million to resign seat
Independent MP Jon Stephensen claims the Moderates offered him 1.3 million DKK to resign his seat in August 2023. Stephensen alleges that party leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen threatened to tell a journalist that Stephensen had intoxicated a young woman unless he stepped down. According to...
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