Danish General Election: 1 November 2022 (user search)

The government programme contains the following parts:

Immediate actions
-The government will propose a package with immediate help to citizens and companies to deal with the costs of inflation. Those elderly with lower incomes will get an check of 5.000 kr., and there will also be help to economically troubled families, those with expensive heating plus money to christmas charities
-Hospitals will get an additional 2 bln. DKK over the next two years to bring down waiting times
-A National Energy Crisis Council will be established to expedite the process towards becoming independent of firstly russian gas, and secondly fossil fuels in general.

Financial policies
- The government wants to make agreements which increases the so-called structural employment by 45.000 full-time persons in 2030.
- The government will have a 'tax increase stop' to ensure that taxes on citizens overall do not rise, so if a decision is made to raise some taxes or fees, others must always be lowered for the same amount. Tobacco duty is exempt from this
- A holiday (the Great Prayer day) will be abolished from 2024

Education
-Vocational education will receive more funds
- In higher education, one should only be able to get study grants for the education's normal study time
- Half of the master programmes will be reduced to one year instead of two
- 500-1000 new student places for educations in English
- The much debated new high school distribution programme is weakened, so parental income is no longer a factor looked at when spreading students across high schools.

Public sector
- 3 bln. kr. will be saved yearly on employment policy. Job centres will be abolished with the unemployment funds and private companies taking over several of the tasks with persons who have a high chance of getting quickly back into employment. For those with more social problems, there is a promise of a more dignified treatment, while remaining tough on fraud. The government aims to give the municipalities more control of how to do this.
- More free choice for the citizens (between public and private solutions) and localized decision-making will be introduced in the public sector. Less bureaucracy and more focus on results. The proces will start in the elderly care, but be carried out throughout the public sector.
- Wages in the public sector will be increased for certain groups. There will be 1 bl. kr. allocated from 2024, rising to 3 bln. kr. in 2030.
- A strucural commission will look at the way the health care sector is structured. This is mainly to deal with the issue of whether or not the regions should be abolished, which is one of the Moderates' central wishes
- An additional 3 bln kr. will be used over 10 years on the psychiatric sector.

Taxation/benefits
- The employment allowance is incresed
- The top tax rate is changed. Currently it's 15% on all income above 550.000 kr. a year. It will now become 7.5% from 550.000-750.000, 15% from 750.000 - 2.500.000, and 20% above 2.500.000.
-The elderly check for poor pensioners is increased by 4.700 kr a year.

Climate
- The 70% reduction target in 2030 compared to 1990 is kept. The 100% reduction target is moved forward from 2050 to 2045. The target in 2050, will be a 110% reduction.
- A co2 tax on agriculture will be introduced, but the income from this will be used on the transformation of the agricultural sector towards a low-emission sector.
- A new sea protection plan with 10 percent of the sea area strictly protected and 20 percent protected.
- 250.000 hectares of new forests are to be established
- A new flight fee of 100 kr.

Defence
- The 2% GDP target is moved forward from 2033 to 2030
- The decision to suspend senior employees in the Military Intelligence Service will be investigated by a commission

Asylum
- The aim is for Denmark and Europe to control the amount of asylum seekers coming here. More persons should be helped in areas close to those they are fleeing from, with the UN quota system becoming the main system of helping refugees to western countries
- More cooperations like the EU-Turkey deal should be encouraged
- Up to 500 UN quota refugees a year will be accepted
- The government will aim to establish a refugee processing center in a safe country which lives up to international conventions. The aim is to establish it as an EU cooperation, or bi/multilaterally with other countries. So the objective of the Rwanda plan is kept, but the chances of it being carried out is reduced further with the demand of at least one other country involved.
- Denmark will appoint an ambassador to deal with moving the international conventions in a more sensible direction

Immigration/integration
- Immigrants needs to contribute to society 37 hours a week to get their benefits
- Allow more refugees to stay in Denmark if they are working or taking an education within a field where Denmark needs labour.
- Lessen the financial costs of getting family reunification

Coherence
- New state jobs should mostly be placed outside the big cities
- Bus routes in rural areas should be improved
- It should be easier to get a loan to purchase a house in rural areas

Justice
- Increase sentences for violent crime
- Reduce court waiting times
- Maintain deal with renting prison places in Kosovo

Democracy
- Improve the right of access so the public (mainly journalists) can get easier access to documents
- Look at whether the Ministry of Justice should be split up, with a new Ministry of National Security being formed, where the police, the police intelligence agency etc. are handled.

Culture
- A reform of museums to ensure a more fair distribution of state funds
- Introduce a "culture grant" for those 45.000 youths who aren't in work or education

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