Mike Fonseca feared that no one would believe that the Moderates were trying to buy him out of the Folketing.
It was the fear of not being taken seriously that led Mike Fonseca to record conversations with top people in the Moderates, including chairman Lars Løkke Rasmussen.
Mike Fonseca was afraid that no one else would believe that the party was trying to buy his parliamentary mandate, he told Frihedsbretet on Thursday.
“It’s a bit of a stretch in my book. But I simply don’t think anyone would have believed my words or the story I had told if I didn’t have some form of documentation of what was going on,” Mike Fonseca tells the media outlet.
He recorded, among other things, a conversation in which he sat in a basement with Lars Løkke Rasmussen as well as the Moderates’ now former communications manager, Ulla Østergaard, and the party’s then party secretary, Kirsten Munch Andersen.
They offered him approximately 370,000 kroner as well as psychological help and crisis management to resign his parliamentary mandate and thus pass it on to his deputy.
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The meeting took place because the Moderates had become aware that Mike Fonseca was in a relationship with a then 15-year-old girl, and had thus broken the party’s internal code of conduct.
“Then we agree that you will get paid for six months,” says Lars Løkke, among other things, on the audio recording that Frihedsbrevet has obtained.
“And we agree that if we get this done right away, then no bomb has exploded, and we will not consider whether you have broken any ‘code of conduct’ (code of conduct, ed.), because you have already resigned from the Folketing,” it continues.
Politiken has not had the opportunity to hear the audio recording.
The offer from the Moderates was rejected by Mike Fonseca. He is currently an independent in the Folketing.
After the publication of the audio recordings, there has been some confusion about who actually came up with the idea in the first place that Mike Fonseca could get money to escape from the Moderates and the Folketinget.
The moderators believe that it was Mike Fonseca who came up with the idea, while he himself has a different opinion.
“It was presented from their side. That’s how I remember it, at least. And then I got an email afterwards, on top of what they had told and presented. I actually think they wrapped it up in the fact that it was something we had agreed on. It was something they offered, it was something I hadn’t asked for,” he tells Frihedsbrevenet.
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