While the mature grown-up parties have been busy negotiating agreements, the Alternative have had it's own big internal discussions. The fusion with the Vegan Party helped the party unite the green voices before the 2022 election, and secure the party crossing the threshold. But now the differences between the two parts are creating conflicts. Neatly summarized in a recent milk spat.
At the yearly democracy summit in Bornholm, the Alternative tent had a fridge with different products for the party representatives. There were of course a lot of oat milk in that fridge, but there was also a regular cow milk. This caused a lot of discussions in the party. There were reports of several heated spats about the cow milk, and the leader of the party secretariat had to write in their closed Facebook group:
"Dear everyone, I was responsible for the tent at Folkemødet. I didn't buy the milk, but I put it in my coffee several times and was responsible for it not being removed. I am extremely happy that you from the old Vegan Party are pushing the rest of us from the old Alternative, when it comes to e.g. purchase of cow's milk. On the other hand, I am extremely sad that several of our volunteers at Folkemødet tell me that they have felt violently overwhelmed in regards to the one cow's milk among the four cardboards of plant milk. I don't know who did it - but verbal boundaries were clearly crossed"
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/konflikt-om-en-liter-komaelk-udstiller-vegansk-utilfredshed-i-alternativet
Lol.
You can't accuse them of being a party without character...
