Mikkel Bjørn wrote that the government and the Social Democrats would reintroduce a bill on citizenship for over 3,000 individuals, even though the party had previously promised not to present it. He stated that over 70 percent of the applicants were from non-Western countries, including MENAPT, and that nearly 40 percent were from MENAPT. According to Bjørn, the largest single group was Syrian refugees, whom he described as temporary. Bjørn pointed out that the Social Democrats had previously referred to the reception of Syrian refugees as temporary, and wrote that Syrians who marched on the motorways in 2015 now constituted the largest group in the bill ten years later. He also claimed that the party had promised to introduce a new model designed to prevent Islamists, anti-democrats, and terror sympathizers from obtaining citizenship, as well as a new system to investigate applicants’ criminal records. According to Bjørn, the bill would be presented without screening, and he questioned whether the plans for criminal investigations had been abandoned. He wrote that Islamists, anti-democrats, criminals, and individuals with limited Danish skills could thus obtain citizenship. He called it a failure and criticized the Social Democrats for entering into government with the Radicals. #danskpolitik #flygtninge #statsborgerskab (translated)