Housing Minister calls Siddique's housing case a scandal

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Housing Minister calls Siddique's housing issue a scandal

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Sikandar Siddique is accused of deceiving voters by moving to Copenhagen to run for the election, according to the minister.

Here Sikandar Siddique arrives at Copenhagen City Hall after the municipal and regional election. (Photo: © Ida Marie Odgaard, Ritzau Scanpix)

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Ritzau ([email protected]) 24 min. ago

Housing Minister Sophie Hæstorp Andersen (S) calls it a "scandal", that communal politician Sikandar Siddique moved to Copenhagen to run for the election, while his family still lives in Herlev.

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> That there is even doubt about something as basic as a candidate's residence is a scandal.

> Housing Minister Sophie Hæstorp Andersen (S)

Sophie Hæstorp Andersen was also previously the mayor of Copenhagen and therefore the political leader of the administration that is supposed to make the decision.

She believes that he will have a hard time convincing the city that his move is real.

- That there is even doubt about something as basic as a candidate's residence is a scandal.

- Now he has until January 15 to convince Copenhagen City Council, and it looks difficult, writes she on Facebook, even though the case is not yet closed.

Also read: Both expert and Copenhagen City Council reject Sikandar Siddique's allegations of breach of law (https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/baade-ekspert-og-koebenhavn-kommune-afviser-sikandar-siddiques-anklager-om-lovbrud)

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Decisive for the right to run in the municipal election

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The case revolves around whether Sikandar Siddique from the party The Free Greens really lives in Copenhagen or in Herlev.

It is decisive, as he ran for the municipal election in November 2025 in Copenhagen City Council and was elected, as the party got one seat.

A seat in the city council's assembly requires, however, that one really lives in the city.

Back in May, Sikandar Siddique announced that he moved from his family in Herlev City Council to Copenhagen to run for the election in the city council.

According to Ekstra Bladet, he still owns his house in Herlev, where his wife and children still live.

Ekstra Bladet's coverage of the move made Herlev City Council to investigate the case before the municipal election.

The city council concluded that Sikandar Siddique was "correctly residence registered".

Also read: Siddique challenges the city in a case about residence registration (https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/siddique-udfordrer-kommune-i-sag-om-bopaelsregistrering)

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Has warned that the residence registration will be annulled

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> A sitting social minister who speaks in clear terms about an ongoing case. So one can no longer claim that it is not a political case.

> Sikandar Siddique from The Free Greens

However, Copenhagen City Council will also investigate itself, and they have preliminarily warned that they intend to annul Sikandar Siddique's residence registration in Copenhagen.

- Regardless of whether the leader of The Free Greens ends up losing his seat, it has been established that he has manipulated with democracy and deceived voters.

- So he should have enough character to leave politics and go away, writes the minister.

Sikandar Siddique himself emphasizes in a written response that the case is still not closed, as the decision is preliminary. He accuses Hæstorp of interfering in a case that is not yet finalized.

- A sitting social minister who speaks in clear terms about an ongoing case. So one can no longer claim that it is not a political case, writes he.

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