Does this bode well for the SocDems for 2019, or is it too far off to be a useful predictor?
It's not a udeful preditor, Danes votes significant different at municipality and parliament elections. But at the same time, this is very good news for SocDem (but also for SPP and the Conservatives), the fact that they increased their vote was a success in it own, it indicate that they have gotten increased support, and they did this while tyhe incumbant effect was against them (that effect means a lot at municipality election, and it's very bad news for the Liberals, that they failed to use the strong postion they got last election). Next there's another electional resultat which are interesting the SocDem has continued strengthen themselves in traditional Liberal strongholds. While the Liberals have been weaken there, and I think mainly the leadership in parliament are at fault for that. So the Liberals need to deal with the fact that they have to careful avoid another (peasant) revolt in the party. They already dislime the the PM and this result have not improved on that dislike. As for Fredriksen the leader of the SocDem, this results means that she won't see unrest, they will allow her to continue her policies, without complaining even the people who hates these policies. This election also serve her well to become more active again. It gave her a excuse to sell her messages, show that she was more popular than the PM and now she can continue with a poplitical victory and a united party behind her.
Mange tak!
Danish politics seem interesting to me, maybe because of how good
Borgen was.
