Danish Elections and Politics

[Estrella]

While Krarup says the impeachment case was handled as it should be, he says "it shouldn't be so that everyone without Social Liberal tendencies should be stoned".

Random question, but did use the word Radikal or are you translating it literally? Is the Danish equivalent of "social-liberal" used as an ideological descriptor? More broadly, what connotations does the word "liberal" have in Denmark? Like, do Social Liberals or Liberal Alliance or, say, New Right explicitly talk about themselves as liberal in some sense?

[Estrella]

Rasmussen is willing to support the Red Bloc? That's... weird, right?

Not really, while Rasmussen is mainly driven by what’s best for number one, but as politician he has always been something of a technocrat. While the existing SocDem leadership is one of the more ideological than in decades, they also see power in a very similar way to Rasmussen than many liberals or conservatives. We should also not forget that Rasmussen is furious at his old party.

But in the end I expect he will support Pape as PM in Conservative, Liberal, Moderate (Social Liberal if the latter is stupid enough to be convinced to join such a government) government against Løkke getting some of the important ministries. Of course it’s not impossible that Sofie Carsten Nielsen will make the same mistake as Hilmar Baunsgaard (Social Liberal PM in 1968-71) and end up as PM for a short lived government.

Why do you think that what Baunsgaard did was a mistake? I'm not familiar with that era of Danish politics, but on the surface using a historic result to become the first Social Liberal PM in half a century even when he led the smallest party in his coalition doesn't seem half bad.