Aarhus City Council will play all-against-one: Mayor will answer critical stadium-questions

Aarhus City Council will face the mayor: Mayor to answer critical stadium project questions

The City Council will call for the mayor of Aarhus to appear in an unusual question-and-answer session about the billion-dollar stadium project.

The construction of a new football stadium in Kongelunden has exceeded the budget by 250 million. Archive photo (Photo: © Bo Amstrup, Bo Amstrup / Ritzau Scanpix)

By Flemming Nielsen ([email protected]) 40 minutes ago

The ballad about the billion-dollar stadium project in Aarhus gets a new chapter.

The Social Democratic mayor of Aarhus, Anders Winnerskjold, will now stand before the City Council about the highly tense construction project.

All parties in Aarhus City Council - with the exception of the mayor's party - demand that the mayor appear in a question-and-answer session in the council chamber, where he will answer critical questions about the stadium project and the large budget overruns of over a quarter of a billion kroner.

The total cost of the new stadium in Kongelunden is approximately a billion kroner - if the City Council finds savings of 83 million. ( https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/aarhus-milliarddyre-stadion-skal-finde-nye-besparelser-venstre-vil-koble-ekstern )

- There are some who have withheld information from the City Council, and we need that to get to the bottom of it, it sounds from the Left's Gert Bjerregaard.

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Critical focus for the debate

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Jakob Søgaard Clausen from the Denmark Democrats believes it is important that it is not just a regular point on a regular council meeting, but a question-and-answer session.

- The difference is that we meet in the council chamber with one point on the agenda: Stadium and the course it has taken. And then we should have answers to the critical questions we have posed about why the mayor and the mayor's department have kept the council in the dark, says Jakob Søgaard Clausen.

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> ...so we should have answers to the critical questions we have posed about

> why the mayor and the mayor's department have kept the council in the

> dark.

> Jakob Søgaard Clausen (DD), member of Aarhus City Council

Recently, an independent legal review of the process surrounding the stadium project in Kongelunden was conducted, but it is not enough for Gert Bjerregaard.

- The weakness of the report is that it does not assign any responsibility, he says.

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The mayor will stand up

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If the City Council wants a question-and-answer session, then Mayor Anders Winnerskjold is willing to participate.

- I think it's fine. I think there is an answer to many of the questions, but if there is something that lacks an answer, then it is healthy to discuss it in the open forum. So it's OK, seen from my chair, says Anders Winnerskjold.

Anders Winnerskjold replaced his party colleague Jacob Bundsgaard as mayor in November, so he has not followed the case all the way, he emphasizes.

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> I think it's fine. I think there is an answer to many of the questions, but if there is something that lacks an answer, then it is healthy to discuss it in the open forum. So it's OK, seen from my chair,

> Anders Winnerskjold (S), mayor of Aarhus

On the other hand, he wonders why the demand for a question-and-answer session, among other things, comes from cultural council member Rabih Azad-Ahmad (R) and environmental council member Nicolaj Bang (C), who have been close to the construction.

- There have been three people in the political steering group (that has followed the stadium construction, ed.). One - the former mayor - no longer sits on the council. Two others, who have sat on the council and the steering group, are part of the ones who are posing these questions. I think in many ways, they can answer better than I can, says Anders Winnerskjold.

- But I can probably answer the questions I can - and then ask for help to answer the rest.

The question-and-answer session in the council chamber in Aarhus will take place on April 9.

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