Centrist update:
Lars Løkke has said that he does not expect that it's possible to properly start a new party before it's possible to meet freely again, so I assume it could happen sometime during the summer. But there might be developments and teasers before that to keep the attention. He also said that he does not expect to contend the local and regional elections in November, as his aim is to influence the big lines on a national level where cooperation across the centre is needed. This already happens many places in local politics.
There are rumours that the two independent MPs Jens Rohde and Orla Østerby are in discussions with the Christian Democrats. Østerby would seem quite logical for a fairly centrist Conservative as him, and would in many ways be similar to Per Ørum in 2010-11, who left the Conservatives and joined Christian Democrats after a DUI sentence. The problem for Østerby is that he is very much a local MP, who's not much known outside of his small pockets of support in the Struer and Holstebro district in the Western Jutland constituency. And in Western Jutland, the Christian Democrats best card Kristian Andersen is running and would safely win their seat if they enter parliament. So Østerby could either run in his home districts and win votes to "help the cause" with a low chance of getting elected, or run in a another constituency, where he's not known and could also have low chances of election. Rohde would seem a weirder fit, in some senses. He has been awarded Politician of the Year by the LGBT association for supporting their causes back when he was in the Liberals, and in 2003 boycotted the annual religious ceremony at the opening of parliament because the priest was from a quite hard core Evangelical church. Also he is just generally considered somewhat of a loose cannon. But Rohde wants to be in a centrist, moderate party, which Christian Democrats fit, and he is apparently a member of CDU in Germany, so it's not like it's unthinkable for him to be a part of a Christian organizaion. He has probably become less radical in his modernity since the early 00es, but I still wonder how he would work with the Christian Democrat grassroots.
Finally, Martin Lidegaard has reached a peace deal with Social Liberal leader Sofie Carsten Nielsen. Lidegaard has been promoted to Deputy Leader instead of Andreas Steenberg, and apparently they have agreed to lead the party along a more centrist course. Lidegaard himself has said that he has considered whether to leave the party and perhaps start something new, and today Ekstra Bladet reveals that one of Lidegaard's associates had even gone so far as to official register the new party "Midten - Danmarks bæredygtige parti"(Centre - Denmark's sustainable party) and bought a web domain. That registration will now be cancelled.
even more parties?
