Everyone has been waiting for it and made their preparations. Election campaign posters, information leaflets and slogans are ready. The printers have been busy getting the material ready. The only big question has been when it should be taken off the shelves and carried out into the streets and squares. Not printing today, but maybe tomorrow? In his speech to the Folketing, Frederiksen said that the last three years as prime minister were completely different than anyone could imagine. As examples of that, she highlighted the corona pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis. Frederiksen also said that many of the latest decisions that have been taken in the National Assembly are the result of the parties cooperating across the blocs. She ended the speech with a “Danmark leve” which was answered with three times “hooray” in the hall. So she did not call for new elections today. After the speech, Frederiksen met the press. – This was the opening of the Folketing and I think it was important to give an opening speech. – Will the election be announced tomorrow? more media wanted to know. – Can’t believe it’s getting closer, Frederiksen answered several times. It is the Prime Minister in Denmark who decides when a parliamentary election will be held. The only requirement is that it must not have been more than four years since the last election. That means that the deadline is 4 June 2023. But that is a long time away, so why will there probably be an election already this autumn? Got a “nose”, but stayed put One of the government’s support parties, Radikale Venstre, has simply threatened that they would put forward a motion of no confidence, if there was not a new election before the opening of the Folketing on 4 October. A deadline the party later extended by one day. The no-confidence motion will, by all indications, bring down Frederiksen’s government. The background is the so-called mink scandal, where Denmark killed more than 15 million mink after a mutated corona variant spread among the animals. A commission has concluded that Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen misled the people when the slaughter was carried out, but the government remained in office. Among other things, because of the support from Radikale Venstre. Radikale Venstre’s leader Sofie Carsten Nielsen. Photo: PHILIP DAVALI / AFP The party believes that Frederiksen bears the political responsibility for the scandal, even if she cannot be held legally responsible. They hope that a new election will provide the basis for a new government that does not only consist of the Social Democracy. The Prime Minister only got what the Danes call a “nose”. This means that she received criticism, but that it had no consequences for her. It did, however, for ten civil servants. They received everything from a scratch and reprimand to being sent home from work, writes Danmarks Radio. Demands new elections despite crises The attack on the gas pipeline in the Baltic caused the Radical Left to go an extra round on the demand for new elections, but they agreed to stand their ground. The party rejects that it is irresponsible to throw Danish politicians into an election campaign in the middle of a crisis situation. – Those crises are not over in two, four, six or eight months. We don’t need an eight-month election campaign. We need to come out on the other side, meet and solve the problems together, says Sofie Carsten Nielsen to the Danish broadcaster. Nielsen has made it clear that Frederiksen can also wait until Wednesday to call new elections. At the beginning of August, Frederiksen and her party Socialdemokratiet received 22.9 percent support. It was the lowest since March 2015. More jokers Danish journalists have been trying for several weeks to get answers to who will cooperate with whom when a new political map is to be drawn. But there are several politicians who keep their cards close to their chest when they are asked who they want to support. There are a total of 14 parties that are ready to begin the election campaign now. Two of them are new: The former Prime Minister from Venstre Lars Løkke Rasmussen has started the Moderates. As a leftist, he belonged to the conservative side, the so-called blue block, but now he calls himself purple and will not say whether he is blue or red. The last time there was an election campaign in Denmark was in June 2019. Then Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen met a student on Bornholm who wanted his autograph on his forehead. Photo: Charlotte Berrefjord Bergløff / news Partifellen from the Liberal Party, the former immigration minister Inger Støjberg, started the new party Danmarksdemokraterne in June. In a short time it achieved a whopping 11 percent in opinion polls. Støjberg was thrown out of the Danish National Assembly last year and sentenced to prison in an impeachment case. She was found guilty of having issued an illegal order that all asylum-seeking couples, where one was a minor, were to be separated when they arrived in Denmark. From the start of the impeachment case against Inger Støjberg. Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen / Ritzau Scanpix / NTB Now her party has recruited several defectors from the Danish People’s Party and has become bigger than its rival. Støjberg is clear that her party belongs to the blue bloc. There, two people have signed up as prime ministerial candidates, the Liberals’ Jakob Ellemann-Jensen and the Conservatives’ Søren Pape Poulsen, but Støjberg has not said which of the two she will support.
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