According to a law passed in 2018, the handshake is mandatory, so why not cancel ceremonies - Danish Government
It means that hundreds of people will have to wait until the handshake is considered safe again. Mr Hudgustin said in an interview on Saturday "Some were unhappy, and we were very sorry. It was the day they had been looking forward to."
The need for handshake, which was adopted by conservative Danish lawmakers and the popular Danish People's Party in 2018, was targeted by opponents as an anti-immigration measure. Especially to target the people having religious beliefs of not to touch opposite sex e.g. Muslims.
Sorry to say, Denmark is not the only European country to have enacted such a law. In 2018, a French court ruled that refusing to shake hand with male officials in a ceremony has sufficient grounds for refusing to give citizenship to an Algerian woman.
According to government officials, there would be no exception in this law for those who want to become citizens. “Of course, this is a sad situation for those who now have to wait to become Danish citizens,” Mattias Tesfaye, immigration and integration minister, said in a statement. “But we take the health authorities’ recommendation seriously. In this situation, we as a society must show unity to limit the spread of infection.”
For many people, the recommendation to defer was the latest contradiction in any law.
“It’s absurd,” said Peder Hvelplund, a socialist and green lawmaker, said in an interview. “The path to Danish citizenship should be about inclusion, not exclusion.” The delay could deprive some of their citizenship, Mr. Hvelplund added, because children under 18 who could have become Danish through their parents’ naturalization would most likely have to start over if they aged out. “Some will likely have to undergo the process themselves,” he said. Mayor Hvidesten of Ringsted said he had been taken by surprise when he received a call from the ministry, two hours before the ceremony on Friday. “We should have made some kind of exceptions; we could have done it without the handshake,” he said. Other Danes responded to the new rule by offering their own alternatives.
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