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« Reply #375 on: August 05, 2022, 05:00:55 PM »

The issue with a cross-bloc government is that it would likely be a death wish to any party that facilitated it. A right wing government with the support of Radikale would almost certainly need the support of the Denmark Democrats or a similar party. Either the latter sells out or Radikale backs a government that is worse on immigration and especially the environment than a Social Democratic one from their voters pov. If the Liberals backed a mostly Red government, then they would absolutely be overtaken by the Conservatives at the next election. Polling has shown a lot of voters like the idea of a cross-bloc government, but in reality they will kick off once they discover their favoured party has to work with party x and implement policies xyz.

I completely agree, but it’s pretty much part of the Social Liberal self-understanding that they’re the center of Danish politics and they can change side if they feel they can get more influence on the other side. Yes in reality it will mean their voters will rebel and they risk a lot of their MP leaving the party, but sometimes self delusion wins out. They will bring up their history in the 80ties, completely ignoring the fact that their cooperation with the right resulted in some of their worst elections ever.

I don’t expect it or see it as likely, but we should not ignore it could happen.

As for Red-Blue government I agree that won’t happen, the SocDem would have far greater interest in letting the right self-destruct and take power next election, than joining in the self-destruction.
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« Reply #376 on: August 06, 2022, 02:23:49 PM »

Why is there such an obsession with a cross-bloc government anyway? The Danish bloc system seems to function well enough and is good for democracy as voters have a better idea of what they will get.
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« Reply #377 on: August 06, 2022, 03:56:05 PM »

Why is there such an obsession with a cross-bloc government anyway? The Danish bloc system seems to function well enough and is good for democracy as voters have a better idea of what they will get.

Likely a mix of factors. Danish culture embrace consensus and dislike extremism (as in things falling outside the consensus). The social liberals are overrepresented among the cultural elite and among journalists and they fetishize cross-bloc compromises [1], so they love to sell this idea. The people (5-10%) who decides Danish election through shifting between the blocs also obvious loves the idea. So you have a culture who value broad compromises, strong voice in the public room who love the idea of cross-bloc coalitions and the most important voter segment who also like the idea, this gives the idea strength even while a clear majority is against it.

[1] the Social Democrats, Conservative and Liberals all like cross-bloc compromises, but they do so for pragmatic reasons, while the Social Liberals likes it for it own sake.

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« Reply #378 on: August 08, 2022, 01:40:55 PM »

Newspaper Børsen asked some of the remaining MPs how they would vote if we end up with a Social Liberal motion of no-confidence on the 4 October if Mette Frederiksen has not called an election before that. Independent Greens will vote no-confidence, and also would have wanted the independent lawyer review of whether impeachment proceedings could start against Mette Frederiksen. Three of the ex-DPP MPs, Søren Espersen, Dennis Flydtkjær and Jens Henrik Thulesen Dahl, will also vote for no-confidence. Six of the other ex-DPP MPs have started a working group, Geese and Ganders, have not made up their mind yet. Independent MPs Jens Rohde and Naser Khader will vote against. Quite surprising with the latter, but maybe he would just want his remaining paychecks to last as long as possible.

Voxmeter published their first poll after Denmark Democrats became eligible. And they find Støjberg's party at 11.2%. Social Democrats are at 22.9%, their lowest in a Voxmeter poll since March 2015. As usual, Voxmeter has Moderates 1% or more lower than in other polls, so here they are at 1.9% and without seats. This means the poll has a Blue Bloc majority without Løkke.
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« Reply #379 on: August 10, 2022, 01:35:34 PM »

A collection of news:

Gallup released their first post summer holiday poll, and they are in a similar range as the others with Denmark Democrats at 10.2%, Social Democrats down at 23.5% and DPP at 1.8%. They are more positive on Løkke with the Moderates at 4.1% and the decisive seats. Now we only need a YouGov poll to have a complete set of polls from the all five pollsters with regular Danish polls.

With the election campaign expected soon, the parties are starting to present their major proposals for that campaign. The Liberals presented a housing plan where the key aim is that more people get the chance to enter the housing market. People who haven't yet bought a house will be able to get a deduction if they enter money into a housing savings account. They can save up to 50.000 a year in five years, and will then get a deduction worth 20% of that amount. There should be economic incentives for municipalities to build more owner-occupied homes and reduce the length of the permit process. They also want to reduce fees for buying cheap homes in rural areas, and reduce the livability demands of owner-occupied apartments in big cities, so more small and cheap apartments can be created.

The Social Liberals has presented an economic 2030 plan. It includes cutting taxes and fees for innovators, give companies deductibles for expenses on research and development, making the public sector more effective, removing the last parts of the efterløn early retirement scheme, remove the right to a municipial job for certain seniors, reduce the interest deductible for house owners, a higher in-work deductible, a higher limit for when you have to pay the top tax rate and more investments in education and green energy

The most woke Danish elected representative, MEP Karen Melchior, has finally left the Social Liberals. The party doesn't have the power to exclude members, but in May the party's executive committee urged her to resign as MEP. After repeated stories of harrassment of staff and eruptions of anger aimed at employees elsewhere, Melchior at first announced that she went on sick leave. However, she kept working as MEP during that so-called sick leave, which was the last straw for the Social Liberal leadership. Now she's left the party, but of course stays as MEP. I haven't seen anything yet about whether she can stay in the ALDE group. I've speculated previously that she might do something a bit special like joining Volt or a foreign party. For now she's an independent.

The socialdemocrat author Lars Olsen, who has been a big inspiration for the party's workerite turn, was interviewed in Jyllands-Posten, where he criticized the party's hesitation in staying on that line. "I'm afraid that Mette Frederiksen is trying to please everyone with a broad, diffuse project, which attempts to also embrace urban voters with focus on green issues and international leadership. There is a fear to challenge the privileged urban environments, and the whole budget is now spent on climate and weapons. Where is the focus on welfare and de-centralisation which was key in 2019?". He says the party shouldn't have changed course after the 2019 local elections, as the loss of voters was mostly due to the mink scandal. He says the party then became scared of losing more urban voters, which can be seen in dropping the attempt to cut university places. He also refers to the Laura Rosenvinge/normstormers case, and says the party risks being seen as a woke, secretarian party for wealthy people in Copenhagen if it does not reject her ideas. Those voters already have two (Social Liberal, Red-Green Alliance), if not three (SPP) good options to vote for. The Social Democrats should be the party to reach the broad working class around the country. Therefor Støjberg's Denmark Democrats will be a big challenge for them.

He also warns the party to lean into a Mette Frederiksen-centric campaign with her as the uniting force in a cross-bloc government, as this would give too big a focus on her negative sides which has become more evident as the mink scandal was revealed. He proposes that the party makes some significant policy suggestions, like an extra top tax rate on earning above 800.000 DKK and withdrawing from the retirement deal, where a majority of parties have decided to raise retirement age every five years if the life expectancy keeps rising.
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« Reply #380 on: August 11, 2022, 01:28:29 PM »

YouGov for BT published their poll, so we can now make the first average of the five usual pollsters post-Denmark Democrats. You can argue about where to put the Social Liberals. Could considering putting them alongside the Moderates once the election is called.
It sounds like Søren Pape will soon make an announcement on whether or not he is officially a candidate for PM. I assume he will declare himself a candidate, and the party's argument should probably be that the Blue PM candidate with the most seats supporting him should become PM. Whereas the Liberal argument would probably be the biggest party should get the post. Because right now it seems more likely that a majority of the other blue seats would end up supporting Pape, while it's on a knife edge which of the two becomes the biggest party.

Red Bloc
Social Democrats 23.7% 43 seats
Social Liberals 6.4% 11
SPP 8.4% 15
Red-Green Alliance 7.2% 13
Alternative 0.9% 0
Independent Greens 0.4% 0
Vegan Party 0.4% 0
SUM: 47.4% 82

Blue Bloc
Conservatives 12.6% 23
New Right 4.9% 9
Liberal Alliance 3.9% 7
DPP 2.3% 4
Liberals 13.1% 24
Denmark Democrats 11.0% 20
Christian Democrats 0.8% 0
SUM: 48.6% 87

Moderates 3.5% 6
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« Reply #381 on: August 15, 2022, 10:12:46 AM »

Pape wants to be PM

Today the Conservative leader Søren Pape announced that he aims to become PM after the upcoming general election. As expected, he said the he aims to form a "blue" government, and that he believes the blue PM candidate supported by the most seats should become PM if there's a blue majority. Polls in recent days have shown that voters support Pape as PM over Ellemann, both among all voters and among the Blue voters only.
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« Reply #382 on: August 15, 2022, 02:00:55 PM »

Liberals bring back popular figure from the EP.

The Liberal MEP Søren Gade will run for parliament in the upcoming general election. He says he expects to run in either Western or Southern Jutland. Gade is among the most popular figures in Danish politics. He was a MP from 2001-2010 and Minister of Defence 2004-2010. He then had a term as CEO of the Danish Agriculture and Food Council. He then ran for parliament again in 2015, where he received the fifth highest amount of personal votes in the country, and became parliamentary group leader for the Liberals. In 2019, he ran for the European Parliament and received 201 696 personal votes, the second highest tally. He will very likely be towards the top of the personal vote tally again. He has largely been seen as near the Støjberg wing of the party, so will likely be seen as a key figure in stopping the tide towards her new party.
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« Reply #383 on: August 16, 2022, 04:09:42 AM »

Pape wants to be PM

Today the Conservative leader Søren Pape announced that he aims to become PM after the upcoming general election. As expected, he said the he aims to form a "blue" government, and that he believes the blue PM candidate supported by the most seats should become PM if there's a blue majority. Polls in recent days have shown that voters support Pape as PM over Ellemann, both among all voters and among the Blue voters only.
It is going to be interesting. Yesterdays Voxmeter poll showed a tied race between Venstre and Konservative, both at 24 mandates and Moderaterne (4) with the decisive mandates... And 7 right and centre right parties in parliament.

Voxmeter 15/8-22
A: 43 M
B: 11 M
C: 24 M
D: 10 M
F: 15 M
G: 0 M
I: 8 M
K: 0 M
M: 4 M
O: 4 M
Q: 0 M
V: 24 M
Æ: 17 M
Ø: 15 M
Å: 0 M
ABFØ: 84 M -7
CDIOVÆ: 87 M + 8

GQÅ combined at 0,8 % K at 1,0 %
https://voxmeter.dk/meningsmalinger/
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« Reply #384 on: August 17, 2022, 10:50:15 AM »

What are DF doing to try and distinguish themselves from Støjberg and stay above 2%?
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« Reply #385 on: August 17, 2022, 12:47:41 PM »

A flurry of news each day now as all the parties are gearing up for the election.

Denmark Democrats announced their first 30 parliamentary candidates. The most notable names are all the ex-DPP MPs. 7 current MPs have joined Støjberg's party plus two other known DPP names, ex-MP Marlene Harpsøe and former DPP political consultant Susie Jessen. So the only two ex-DPP MPs not to end up with Støjberg is the pro-Russian Marie Krarup, and Liselotte Blixt who will not run again. There is also a lot of of former Liberals among the candidates, including 5 councillors. None of them really notable, although Charlotte Munch was the lead candidate for Liberals in Hvidovre in the recent local elections, but not a place where the Liberals are a big party. Also one Conservative ex-councillor among the names.

Denmark Democrats also made a new policy proposal. The party wants to increase parental leave with nine weeks. This should be paid for by reducing the development aid. This comes after a fairly unpopular deal made between the Red Bloc parties + the Liberals about how to implement the EU parental leave directive. The deal increased the amount of earmarked paternal leave from 2 to 11 weeks, while reducing the earmarked maternal leave from 14 to 11 weeks, and the shared leave from 32 to 26 weeks. So by increasing the shared leave with nine weeks, the mother will be able to have the same amount of leave as previously if the mother uses all the shared leave weeks.

The government has proposed a cap on rent increases for two years, so the rent can only be raised by max 4 % a year, instead of the 8-9% possible currently due to the high inflation. The government also proposed removing the age limit for legally changing your gender. Currently the age limit is 18 years for doing this, but the government proposes to remove that fully. Children below 15 would need parental consent though.

The Conservatives proposed a new tax plan which includes a removal of the top tax rate, lower property taxes, lower company taxes and a removal of the inheritance tax and the company generational handover tax. The proposal also includes lower fees on electricity and a higher employment deductible. This will be paid for by removing the government's new early retirement scheme, remove the last part of the efterløn early retirement scheme, cut the state broadcaster DR and the job centres. Finally the party also wants to increase productivity in the public sector, so the increased amount of sick and elderly persons can be treated without raising the public expenses.
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« Reply #386 on: August 17, 2022, 12:58:12 PM »

What are DF doing to try and distinguish themselves from Støjberg and stay above 2%?

Both DPP and New Right are quite a bit hampered by their year-long courting of Støjberg in public with repeated messages about how much they wanted her to join their party. Messerschmidt said he would pull his candidature as DPP leader if Støjberg wanted the job. So this makes them look a bit stupid by now criticizing her. New Right's Vermund has so far said that she "could understand if someone saw Støjberg as untrustworthy" after now becoming more Eurosceptic while she was in favour of the pro-EU side in the 2015 justice opt-in referendum. She also said Støjberg's term as Minister of Immigration only led to stop-gap measures, no real structural attempt to reduce immigration.
Messerschmidt has criticized Støjberg for not doing enough during the 2015 refugee crisis and for not wanting to leave the international conventions on refugees.
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« Reply #387 on: August 20, 2022, 03:15:00 PM »

How firm will the Social Democrats be in insisting on Mette Frederiksen as their only candidate for PM? A question that might get some additional speculation now. The potential kingmaker Lars Løkke today said it would be difficult to support a Social Democrat PM if it's Frederiksen, considering the way she has governed and her wilfulness. When asked whether it would be easier to support another Social Democrat candidate for PM, he answers 'Definitively yes. But now she's the one in that position. Hopefully the Danes will reject this government. Never have we had such a wilful government. Never have we had a government making its mark on the civil service in this way. She personifies that government. So of course it would be much easier to support another Social Democrat candidate for PM'.
With Frederiksen's unpopularity among Blue voters, it would certainly also make it a bit more palatable for any Blue party to accept a broad government led by the Social Democrats if it's not led by her. Someone like Minister of Finance Nicolai Wammen would probably be the best option for such a job. The Blue parties of course all insist that they don't want a government across the centre, but if this is where we end after an election, another Social Democrat PM would likely be a demand.
But I'm not sure whether there would be any appetite for that among the Social Democrats. Certainly not for Frederiksen herself, and she still seems to have full support among MPs, members and their core voters. It would likely take one of the stalemate scenarios for that to emerge as a possible solution, and even then Frederiksen might very well just opt for another election instead. The argument in favour for other parts of the party should be that it increases their chance of government over keeping Frederiksen, and maybe that it makes sense with another face in charge if the project is suddenly a very new one in a government with the Social Liberals and Moderates.


Løkke was also asked about his demands for a broad government. He was asked what defines a broad government, is it enough that the Moderates is in it? 'That would certainly add breadth and substance to a government'. Is it a broad government if it's Conservatives, Liberals and Moderates? 'Not unless it's a situation where the Social Democrats and Social Liberals could support the governing programme. The crucial thing is that it's a programme which builds a bridge across the centre of politics. And my analysis is that this requires parties from both sides'. So any Blue government would need some kind of agreement with the Social Liberals? 'I don't know if it have to do that. Honestly, there are many different options'
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« Reply #388 on: August 22, 2022, 02:18:07 PM »

Voxmeter, which has generally had a positive house effect for the Liberals of almost 1.5%, showed the party all the way down at 11.0%. A new joint polling low for the Liberals in Voxmeter polls. So this could suggest other pollsters will find them down towards 10% or below that. Not the best way to enter an election campaign for the Liberals! The biggest beneficaries are probably Conservatives and Liberal Alliance.

The Conservatives are all the way up at 16.5%. The poll is from the days after Pape's PM announcement, so of course his party received a lot of attention. If the Conservative - Liberal polling difference stays in this area, then there shouldn't be much speculation about who's the real opposition leader and blue PM candidate. Something which the Social Democrats seems to be very happy about. The more right wing economic plan of the Conservatives allow the Social Democrats to run a campaign against them on welfare cuts + tax cuts for the rich. That is probably helpful for them. But there might also be some underestimation of Søren Pape, who has for months polled as the most popular party leader/politician in the country. If it becomes more Pape - Frederiksen than Ellemann - Frederiksen, the former duel should be beneficial for the Blue parties considering their current approval ratings at least.

Liberal Alliance keeps slowly building, and hits 4.9% in this poll. We don't need to go further back than this spring, where they remained low in the polls, barely above the threshold. But since then they have ticked upwards. Their three MPs with different profiles do a good job with their briefs, and particularly party leader Alex Vanopslagh should be credited with salvaging the party's brand. Their economic policies are much the same, but they are shying a way a bit from the stale tax cut refrain to a broader personal responsibility/confidence message.
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« Reply #389 on: August 24, 2022, 12:17:04 PM »

The government has decided on the punishments for the civil servants involved in the mink scandal. Most of the attention has revolved around the permanent secretary in the Prime Ministry, Barbara Bertelsen, who along with Mette Frederiksen has received the most criticism from the opposition as the ones with the decisive influence. Bertelsen only received a warning, the lightest punishment possible. In addition to Frederiksen taking her time to discuss with journalists in todays press conference, whether it really qualifies as a scandal, I'm guessing they didn't convince many that there is a lot of regret in the upper echelons of power.
The hardest punishment was received by head of the National Police who is suspended from duty, and a disciplinary case opened against him. The permanent secretary in the Ministry of Environment (in Food and Agriculture at the time) is also suspended, and will face a disciplinary case.

The big policy proposals continue to flow here as we all wait for the election to be officially called. The Red-Green Alliance presented a big climate plan, which aims to halve the number of farm animals in 2030, increase CO2 duties on companies, ban the selling of gas- and dieselcars by 2025, and ensure climate neutrality by 2040. The Social Demorcrats have proposed higher prison sentences for violent crimes, making it punishable to recruit young persons into criminal gangs, make it easer for police to do phone surveillance and a bigger "Al Capone" unit which focuses on catching gang criminals for other crimes like benefit fraud or other economic illegalities.
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« Reply #390 on: August 25, 2022, 03:04:37 PM »

Today Epinion published a poll for DR and Altinget, and for the first shows where the Denmark Democrats voters come from. In this poll the party is at 11.8%, slightly bigger than the Liberals on 11.3% while Conservatives get 16.7%.

Of the Denmark Democrats voters, they voted for the following parties in 2019.
33.5% voted for DPP
31.8% voted for Liberals
11.4% voted for Social Democrats
5.9% voted for New Right
3.2% voted for Hard Line
2.7% voted for Conservatives
1.5% voted for hristian Democrats
1.2% voted for Liberal Alliance
1.0% voted for Social Liberals


All the Blue Bloc party leaders met at Bakkens Hvile, where Messerschmidt's girlfriend is a former singer.

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« Reply #391 on: August 26, 2022, 04:11:03 PM »

The Alternative leadership today wrote an open letter in the Politiken daily inviting the Independent Greens and Vegan Party (in the proces of merging with the the Greens and become the Green Alliance) to run as one force in the upcoming general election. They offer all members of the two parties free membership of the Alternative and the chance to run on their election lists. They argue that as the biggest and most tested organisation, it would make sense to organize things in that way, but that they would see a potential cooperation for the election as one between equal parties, who get to keep their own identities.

The Independent Greens are quick to reject the idea. Party leader Sikandar Siddique says "Us joining the Alternative is not on. And that is due to their policies, and the so-called green deals they have joined. They have a lower level of ambition than us. We want uncompromising green action. We can't just do deals which make things a bit better. That will be too little too late. Also we are a clear left-wing project, and I don't see the Alternative and the Vegans/Green Alliance that way".

The Vegan Party leader Henrik Vindfeldt is less dismissive, but noncommittal. He says "The most important thing for us and our members is to see the change we are fighting for. If that best happens in a cooperation, we should continue to explore whether such a cooperation can be established". However, I wonder to which degree this is aligned with the party they are about to merge with, the Greens, which is more centrist, centre-rightish on economy. And have been promised that the new Green Alliance will have a similar economic policy. I think the Greens would be less in favour of joining a bog standard left wing party. The Green Alliance is supposed to present their new common political programme in the first week of September.
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« Reply #392 on: August 31, 2022, 12:28:44 PM »

While the election is yet to be officially called, all the party posters in the public space tells otherwise. And this Sunday we will have the first election debate, when the three PM candidates meet for an hour long debate. It seems quite clear that the Socialdemocrat strategy is to pooh-pooh Ellemann, and talk up Pape as the whole Blue Bloc and then attack him on economy/welfare. So I would expect Frederiksen to take that route.
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« Reply #393 on: September 01, 2022, 02:38:37 PM »

Uffe Elbæk encourages Green cooperation

Uffe Elbæk, the Independent Green MP and co-founder of both the Alternative and the Independent Greens, have today encouraged the three Green parties to unite. Elbæk says that "If we are to solve the climate crisis, then the Alternative and the Independent Greens should be able to find common ground". This goes directly against what the Independent Greens leader Sikandar Siddique said just two days ago, where he clearly rejected the idea. Siddique called the Alternative "a centrist party" and rejected Green Alliance as a "borgerlig party which is in favour of economic growth".
Elbæk also criticizes his own party's recent campaign, where they show leading CEOs in bad situations and name them as "anti climate activists". Elbæk says that "Everybody who knows me, know that I have strong principles to always go for the ball, not the man. You need to respect your opponents, no matter who they are".

Both the Vegan Party and the Greens have accepted the merger, so there is now officially an eligible party called the Green Alliance. And while Siddique has been very opposed, both of the leaders in the Green Alliance sound open to a united Green front, and it sounds like they could enter negotiations with the Alternative.
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« Reply #394 on: September 07, 2022, 01:32:36 PM »

We are now starting to reach the days, where basically every day could be the one where the election is called. If Frederiksen wants to call the election from inside the chamber, then the first opportunity is tomorrow where parliament has the first reading of the proposed budget for 2023 + (readings of several other minor pieces of legislation).

A parliamentary debate on the budget will very likely be another barrage of Social Democrat attacks against the Conservative economic plan, which the governing party has put front and center of their election campaign. It also took up a significant part of the time in the PM debate on Sunday, where a lot of the aftermath has revolved around the PM's overblown statements about "40.000 sackings in the public sector" if the Conservative plan is carried out. And while the massive criticism of this statement by economic experts and the opposition might add a bit further to the trust issues about Frederiksen, I'm sure the Social Democrats, like with the Brexit bus figures in the UK, are very happy for long discussions about whether the real number is 20.000 or 30.000 less employees instead.
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« Reply #395 on: September 08, 2022, 04:33:33 PM »

Epinion did a political compass of Danish voters by party.

Things that stuck out:
SF voters, while obviously left of centre, are basically as close to SD as EL, which wasn’t the case on another compass from a few years ago (they were barely any more moderate than EL back then).
Moderate voters are well into the socially progressive column, which given their Liberal heritage is somewhat surprising (and suggests they are very niche atm).
KF is to the left of the Liberals. Pape might be picking up moderate swing/‘Pape for prime minister’ voters, but their platform is very much to the right which suggests trouble may be ahead.
The corpse of DF is barely the most economically moderate Blue party (and to the right of the Moderates), but the DD look fairly generically Blue as well (where has all the ‘Red DF’ vote gone?).
The NB vote, despite being fairly blue collar, is very economically right wing (if they ever had SD curious voters they’ve decamped to DD or KF).

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« Reply #396 on: September 09, 2022, 09:58:29 AM »

Today the tabloid Ekstra Bladet revealed that Søren Pape's husband Josue Medina Vasquez is not a Jew, despite what Pape has stated publicly several times, including at a conference about antisemitism in 2020, where he stated that "my better half is Jewish, and has gone to the synagogue every Saturday since being a toddler". However, the newspaper researched among Medina Vasquez' family in Venezuela and the Dominican Republic, and the family has always been members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Pape even celebrated Christmas with Medina Vasquez + four members of his family, and has told the story about how he celebrated Christmas with five Jews.

This comes a few days after it was revealed that Medina Vasquez is not the nephew of Danilo Medina, the former President of the Dominican Republic, unlike what Pape has stated. Pape then said that they were related, although not strictly uncle/newphew, but that it's normal in the Dominican Republic to call each other uncle/nephew if you have a close relationsship, despite not being related that way. In later interviews Pape ditched the part about a family relation, and just said the two had a relation.

Pape's comment to Ekstra Bladet about the Jew-case was "I didn't know that registers of Jews should be a thing in Denmark, but apparently that is what you want to do in Ekstra Bladet". However, shortly after Pape released a statement on Facebook where he said "My husband has said wrong things, other things are based on misunderstandings. I have brought this information on in good faith. Most of this regards my husband's childhood and youth. Now we are looking forward. Wrong information is not okay, and I will ensure in the future that this does not happen again". Pape also used the statement to regret another thing. Ekstra Bladet has also revealed that back in 2018, when Pape was Minister of Justice, he was on a private vacation in the Dominican Republic and held meetings with several high-ranking politicians without informing the Danish Foreign Service. Two other ministers Inger Støjberg and Mai Mercado were also in some of the meetings.
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« Reply #397 on: September 09, 2022, 11:23:59 AM »

In other news, the Social Democrat Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, Sophie Hæstorp Andersen, was humiliated in the negotiations for Budget 2023. A majority made an agreement on next year's budget without her party. The Red-Green Alliance decided to make a deal with the Conservatives, the Social Liberals, the Liberals, the Alternative, Liberal Alliance, New Right and DPP on the budget for 2023. The deal includes a 0.1% tax cut, the price of a parking license is increased by 200 kr. and 600 parking spots closed, massive investments in climate initiatives as well as significant funds for sports facilities and organizations as well as an improved teacher and kindergarten teacher education.

In a press conference today, the Minister of Immigration, Kaare Dybvad, signed a declaration alongside his Rwandan counterpart, where they agree to work on transferring asylum seekers from Denmark to Rwanda. The processing of their cases will happen while they are in Rwanda, if they get asylum, this will be in Rwanda as well. Denmark in the deal also increases funds for green technologies in Rwanda.
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« Reply #398 on: September 11, 2022, 10:28:41 AM »

In other news, the Social Democrat Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, Sophie Hæstorp Andersen, was humiliated in the negotiations for Budget 2023. A majority made an agreement on next year's budget without her party. The Red-Green Alliance decided to make a deal with the Conservatives, the Social Liberals, the Liberals, the Alternative, Liberal Alliance, New Right and DPP on the budget for 2023. The deal includes a 0.1% tax cut, the price of a parking license is increased by 200 kr. and 600 parking spots closed, massive investments in climate initiatives as well as significant funds for sports facilities and organizations as well as an improved teacher and kindergarten teacher education.
What makes NB and DF agree to things like this?
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« Reply #399 on: September 11, 2022, 01:56:29 PM »

In other news, the Social Democrat Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, Sophie Hæstorp Andersen, was humiliated in the negotiations for Budget 2023. A majority made an agreement on next year's budget without her party. The Red-Green Alliance decided to make a deal with the Conservatives, the Social Liberals, the Liberals, the Alternative, Liberal Alliance, New Right and DPP on the budget for 2023. The deal includes a 0.1% tax cut, the price of a parking license is increased by 200 kr. and 600 parking spots closed, massive investments in climate initiatives as well as significant funds for sports facilities and organizations as well as an improved teacher and kindergarten teacher education.
What makes NB and DF agree to things like this?

They are both tiny parties with only 1 councillor each, and weren't necessary for the majority. They couldn't have imagined getting basically any influence at all, and now they had the chance to participate in an unprecented Budget deal, which has humiliated the Social Democrats and the Lord Mayor specifically. That has surely been to good to walk away from by grandstanding on any issue and leaving negotiations, which they wouldn't get any publicity for at all, both due to their small size and because the fact that the deal was without the Social Democrats took all the airwaves. And there was no chance of a deal with the Red-Greens without a lot of climate initiatives. Also it doesn't even sound like New Right in Copenhagen are that much against climate initiatives.

And then in terms of the issues, New Right is of course also significantly right wing economically, so they were very happy with the historic tax cut in such a left-wing dominated city.

Here is the link where the spokesperson for each party talks about why they like the deal
https://www.kk.dk/budgetaftale2023

Google Translate can probably take most of it, but to sum up shortly for the two parties:

New Right: The biggest focus is on the tax cut. Then they are also very happy that a citizen's initiative, like the one in parliament, is introduced, where the city council has to discuss any issue which gets a certain share of signatures plus some other citizen involvement initiatives. And then he praises the sun cell parts (more suncells on municipal buildings + an advisory function for citizen to encourage more sun cells) and the electric car charger boost.

DPP: Starts out by mentioning music festivals for retirement home inhabitants, free entrance for pensioners in more museums + cheaper municipal food for those receiving elderly care. Then mentions better help for persons with impairments to take a vocational education. Finally, he mentions the continuation of free medical care for homeless persons' dogs, and praises the many investments in sports facilities.
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