{"id":19938,"date":"2022-11-02T03:32:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T03:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/election-thrillers-in-denmark-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries\/"},"modified":"2022-11-02T03:32:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T03:32:24","slug":"election-thrillers-in-denmark-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/election-thrillers-in-denmark-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Election thrillers in Denmark \u2013 news Urix \u2013 Foreign news and documentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

– I am very happy, said Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen before she went in to give a speech after the election thriller in Denmark. When 100 percent of the votes were counted in Denmark just before 01:00 on Wednesday night, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen had a red bloc 87 mandate. But we had to wait for the results from the Faroe Islands and Greenland, which each have two mandates in the Danish parliament. The Faroe Islands have sent one mandate to each of the blocs, while Greenland has sent two red mandates at the last six elections. They will do that this time too, broadcaster KNR confirmed on Wednesday night. This ensures a majority for the red bloc with 90 of the Folketing’s 179 mandates. Blue block gets 72 mandates. Frederiksen from the Social Democrats currently holds the post of prime minister, and has applied for re-election. On paper, she was challenged by two candidates from the right: Jakob Ellemann-Jensen in Venstre and S\u00f8ren Pape Poulsen in the Conservative People’s Party. – The Social Democrats have made the best election in 20 years. We are a party for the whole of Denmark. A party for those who live in the countryside and for those who live in the big cities. In fact, we are the only people’s party today, says Frederiksen in a speech on the night of Wednesday. 84.1 percent of those able to vote voted in the Danish election. It is the lowest turnout since 1990, according to the Ritzau news agency. Departs on Wednesday It is unclear what the election results mean. Frederiksen has said that she wants a broadly composed government across the blocs. – The election campaign is over, and now the verdict awaits. “For whoever will form the government, the tasks are lined up,” Frederiksen said in his speech after the election. The Prime Minister will go to Queen Margrethe on Wednesday to ask that the government be allowed to resign, in the hope of starting negotiations on a new government. – The Social Democrats went to the polls to form a broad government. If a majority of the party points to me, I will investigate whether it can be done. Because that is what will be good for Denmark, she said in the party leader debate on Wednesday night. Venstre will probably be the party that will be called in for negotiations to form a new government first. – I think the best way is to start with the biggest party, so that I don’t favor anyone. This is how we usually do it, said Frederiksen. But Venstre’s Jakob Ellemann-Jensen has little faith that they will enter government with the Social Democracy. – Politics is about politics and impact. We want as much left-wing politics through as possible. If Mette Frederiksen wants to adopt Venstre’s party programme, then it is interesting. But I think it is difficult to see it myself, says party leader in Venstre Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, writes DR. Party leader in Venstre Jakob Ellemann-Jensen acknowledged defeat early on Wednesday. His party lost 19 of the 43 seats in the parliament Photo: Bo Amstrup \/ AP The joker in the middle Former Prime Minister Lars L\u00f8kke and his new party, the Moderates, seemed for a long time to be the deciding factor for the party that will form a government. The party, which was started in April this year, still has 16 mandates, and became the joker in the middle. With the mandate that was predicted on Tuesday, it looked for a long time that he would get the decisive position he wanted. Signe Bock Segaard, researcher at the Institute for Social Research and herself Danish, says that much will change in Danish politics anyway, if the opinion polls are somewhat correct. – New parties will come in, and then we will also see that the established, traditional parties may risk being severely weakened, or perhaps even move out of the Folketing. She also points to the fact that L\u00f8kke Rasmussen has entered the picture at record speed, and has subsequently “established himself as a possible prime ministerial candidate on the informal level”. Support from the Moderate party, which was started by L\u00f8kke Rasmussen in April this year, will probably be decisive for the party that will form a government in Denmark. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix Emil Helms \/ NTB Editor-in-Chief in the Alting, Veslem\u00f8y \u00d8strem, is also following this development. – Right now, it is very exciting how things are going with Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen and his brand new party, the Moderates, which was established earlier this year and has a good chance of having 3-4 percent in the polls, but which has now sped up to around 8\u20139 per cent and can really become a powerful factor in Norwegian politics. \u00d8strem also says that Frederiksen is looking towards the center to form a government with one or more parties. – I probably think that she prefers to have the safe base in a centre-left constellation, but if she is satisfied, then Mette Frederiksen will probably also be able to cooperate with them. – It depends on whether she has the self-confidence she needs to enter into negotiations with him. Many big issues, little focus on scandals Inflation and the Danes’ private economy have both been important topics in the election campaign. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen launched, among other things, a package to raise the pay of certain public servants in the other party, especially on the bourgeois side, argued for tax relief for the individual. Another central theme has been the lack of manpower, especially in the Danish healthcare system. Mette Frederiksen in the voting queue on Tuesday. Photo: Johan Nilsson\/TT \/ NTB Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen and the Moderates demand reforms in this area. The Social Democrats have pointed to a desire for reforms in the labor market and in schools. Although Frederiksen has been at the center of several significant scandals, there has been relatively little focus on these in the last four weeks. We will not know what will be decisive for the election until tonight. The really big question is what happens next. Many experts believe that it may take time before Denmark gets a new government. If neither party is willing to enter into a compromise, none of the blocs will probably be able to form one. The Danish People’s Party’s worst election ever Once upon a time, every fifth Dane voted for them. This time the Danish People’s Party was in danger of being kicked out of the Folketing. They have not fallen below the Danish blocking limit of 2%, but are down to approximately 5 mandates this year compared to 16 in 2019. Leader Morten Messerschmidt was nevertheless positive on the podium on Tuesday evening. – DF has existed for 27 years, and it’s not all the years we’ve had tailwinds on the cycle paths, he said jokingly, quoting an Elton John song with “we’re still standing”. – That’s the only thing I’ve heard journalists talk about in recent months is the blocking limit, blocking limit, blocking limit. Dear journalists, now you can stop asking questions and start talking about politics. Messerschmidt also emphasized that regardless of whether you have 30 or five mandates, you must act “humbly and fairly”. Liberal Alliance is heading for a by-election among the young. Several of the parties have invested heavily in Facebook campaigns. At the top of the list is the Liberal Alliance party, which seems to have made a popular choice among the young. According to DR, they have spent 2.5 million Danish kroner on leader Alex Vanosplagh and his party’s Facebook profiles. A newspaper describes Vanosplagh as a kind of big brother for young Danish men. According to opinion polls, the party is preferred among Danish voters aged 18 to 34. Vanosplagh is the leader of the Liberal Alliance party. Photo: MARTIN SYLVEST \/ AFP So the investment seems to have worked. When the election was called on 5 October, the Liberal Alliance had a support of 4.1 per cent. During the last four weeks, the figure has almost doubled, according to DR’s forecast. In second and third place with their Facebook budgets are the Social Democrats, which govern today, and the Conservative People’s Party. These spent 1.13 million and 1.09 million Danish kroner respectively on Facebook campaigns.
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