DENMARK - 5 June 2019 election

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What's the orientation of the Conservative People's Party at this point? New Right is an anti-immigration breakaway, right? So the rump Conservative People's Party is less anti-immigration, is that correct?

Also, remind me of the difference between the Social Liberals, the Alternative, and the Liberal Alliance again?

Finally, I assume all the immigrant skeptic/assimilationist elements in the Socialist People's Party have been forced out?

Might be worth it just to do a post summing up all the parties.

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Weird that the Liberals are big in rural areas and the Conservatives have most of their support in urban areas. That's the opposite of the way it usually is in most countries where there's parties called "Conservative" and "Liberal".

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Any chance of a grand coalition? It seems like the Liberals and Social Democrats are closer to each other than they are to their coalition partners on the issue of the day and they're not too far from each other on economic issues either. Knowing American left-wing activists, I also have a hard time in particular believing that the Red-Greens are going to be cooperative with a party as immigration skeptic as the Social Democrats. It would be weird though, there's a lot of grand coalitions in Europe these days but they're usually the polar opposite of what I'm proposing here, they're usually economically liberal, pro-immigration, whereas this could shape up to be a grand coalition that's economically moderate, anti-immigration.

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Søren Gade, who helped Liberals to a great EU election with more than 200 000 personal votes, tried his best to stop the positive momentum helping the party in the general election. To a newspaper in Northern Jutland, he said: "Someone told me 'now you will become Løkke's best friend for the next nine days'. But I can ensure you that I'm not going to hang on banners with Lars Løkke. I'm looking after my own credibility". This was of course widely cited in national newspapers. It shows the strained relationships in the party that Gade in this way attacks Løkke's credibility and basically tells his voters that it's fine if they don't support the party under his reign.

Where is he positioned ideologically compared to the other party members?

Generally, he's seen as being on the same page as the right-wing in the party, personified by Minister of Immigration Inger Støjberg. This means a tougher line on immigration and law & order, more focus on the conditions for fishers and farmers than increased environmental regulation or saving wolves and a focus on the problems with EU (in terms of immigration, welfare benefits for central and eastern europeans, bureaucracy etc.) over a clear-cut pro-EU stance. Gade and Støjberg has proposed internally that the party moves from ALDE to EPP to get away from the most federal-inclined members in ALDE.
During the leadership crisis in the Liberals in 2014, Søren Gade played a quite significant shadow role. Løkke and his allies used Søren Gade, with Gade's accept, as a threat to Kristian Jensen; if you force Løkke to resign, Gade will run against you. However, the relationship with Løkke is, as the recent quote indicates, not very rosy. Suprisingly, Gade didn't become a minister after the 2015 election, instead he became parliamentary group leader. It is not entirely clear why that didn't happen. Perhaps because Løkke saw Gade as too big of a threat, if the popular trustworthy Jutlandic figure was given a prominent role, just after the Liberals taking a big hit, partly due to Løkke's terrible personal credibility. Perhaps also a peace agreement with Kristian Jensen to keep Gade out or at least away from a top job (there are rumours that Gade rejected a less important minister job).
While Gade is still popular among voters, he seems to have less friends internally in the party. He has been disloyal to the party line too much and accused of becoming too arrogant and repeatedly lashing out at opponents.
It will be interesting to see how things will play out after the expected defeat. Will Løkke resign voluntarily? And if not, who will force him to step down? And will there be a genuine leadership battle to replace him or will Kristian Jensen be able to make deals with enough of the party to avoid it? Gade is probably not a leadership contender anymore, but does Støjberg want to make a bid for it?

If the leader of the Social Democrats favors limiting "non-Western immigration" and the PM is to the right of her, how could he be to the right of the PM on immigration? What does that look like? Is he in favor of repatriation?

I thought somebody said the current PM was moderating his economic stances, so if anything, I would have imagined someone on the PM's right would be on the right of him economically, is that not the case?

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Why did the Conservative People's Party increase their vote total?