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A member of the Danish parliament said that he had been ordered to remove his granddaughter from the room, which surprised a country often described as a pioneer of women's rights.
"You are not welcome with your baby in the House of Parliament," said Mette Abildgaard, speaker, Pia Kjaersgaard, a former leader of the far-right Danish People's Party.
"I did not ask permission to bring her in since I had seen a colleague take a child to the room without problems," Abildgaard wrote on Facebook, whose conservative party is part of the coalition. right to power.
Abildgaard, who is in her thirties, said that she was in an exceptional situation with her five-month-old daughter and that she had never brought her to the House before. She said that the baby was "in a good mood and that he had a lollipop in his mouth".
Kjaersgaard relayed the message to an badistant, who then asked Abildgaard to remove the baby from the room. Abildgaard handed the child to an badistant and went back to the room to vote.
"MPs should be in the House, not babies or children," Kjaersgaard told reporters. She clarified that clear rules would be established on this subject.
The Scandinavian country is often presented as a champion of gender equality and women's rights, and as a child-and-family-oriented country with generous parental leave.
Abildgaard indicated that she was entitled to one year of full-year maternity leave but that she had chosen to return to work.
Its publication on Facebook attracted more than 600 comments in the space of a few hours. "A room that represents mothers, fathers and babies should be open to mothers, fathers and babies," wrote one person.
In 2016, an Icelandic politician made the headlines after badfeeding her baby while she was speaking in front of the podium in parliament.
And in September, New Zealand Premier Jacinda Ardern became a symbol for working mothers when she brought her baby to the UN General Assembly in New York.
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