Danish Elections and Politics

[DavidB.]

New right-wing parties not pointlessly self-destructing challenge (literally impossible)

[DavidB.]

The parties are moving towards picking their MEP lists. 78-year old SPP veteran Margrethe Auken, who has been a MEP since 2004, has decided to not run again. It's widely expected that the party's other MEP, 25-year old Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, will become their lead candidate in 2024. In the Liberal Alliance, MP Henrik Dahl, has been nominated as lead candidate by the party leadership. The sociologist and author has been a MP since 2015, and been a significant voice in the anti-woke movement and in the battle for higher standards in education. In the Liberals, MEP Morten Løkkegaard, who topped the personal vote chart with 207 558 personal votes in 2019, is expected to be named lead candidate again. Former MEP and ex-Minister Ulla Tørnæs will also be a candidate.

Where do you expect the Denmark Democrats and the Liberal Alliance to go in the EP? (I guess the question is moot for NB since they've fallen so low...) And do you think DF will get in again?

[DavidB.]

Incredible how Løkke managed to drag the government's position so far to the left on this issue.

This is the essence of the Moderates' existence. Undoing the kingmaker position of working class S/DF and lower middle-class V/S swing voters by destroying the bloc system, and replacing it with a kingmaker position for rich voters who only want "what's good for business".

[DavidB.]

If Løkke goes, is the Moderate project finished or will it continue? How much does their electoral support depend on Løkke?

In general, to what extent is the breakthrough of "bloc politics" popular or unpopular among party cadres and the general population? Is it widely recognized as a big change in the first place?