Danish Elections and Politics

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

Has the overtone window on immigration policy shifted since the new goverment got into power and the Virus hit ?

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

Quite a hit for the Social Liberals with two prominent defections in a week. And the obvious question is whether defeated leadership candidate Martin Lidegaard will follow suit now that two of his strongest supporters have given up and left the party. It will be interesting to see whether the Social Liberals will continue the more vote-maximizing style of activist and far-left immigration policies, or whether defections like these makes the leadership re-consider and steer back towards a policy which you could enter government with.

That's weird I thought the social liberals were an economically centerist party with pro-busniesss immigration stance, what exactly is so radical about their stance on immigration ? and how is it getting them votes ?

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

Are the social democrats to the right of Venstre on immigration?

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

Agreement on support for Ukrainian refugees with big Defence agreement expected to follow

The government, Liberals, SPP, Social Liberals, Red-Green Alliance, Liberal Alliance and Christian Democrats has made a deal to help Ukrainian refugees coming to Denmark. The deal exempts those fleeing from Ukraine from the standard procedures of applying for asylum, and instead creates an express track where they will get almost immediately a temporary residence permit, so they are able to work, study and get health care. Those Ukrainians already in Denmark on work permits will also be able to apply for this permit.
DPP and New Right are against the deal because it includes everyone with a legal stay in Ukraine, i.e. including refugees/migrants from the Middle East and North Africa. The Conservatives had the same opposition, so weren't a part of the deal when presented. However, the party's spokesperson in these negotiations, hard core immigration-sceptic Marcus Knuth, might have gone too far. The party has been barraged with attacks from the media and the other mainstream parties. Local councillors have spoken against it as well, and it seems obvious that several MPs were very uneasy with it. So now it sounds like, the Conservatives will end up backing the deal as well.

Hard to accept that that their opposition to immigration is entirely non-racial given their actions here.

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

The government, Liberals, SPP, Social Liberals, Red-Green Alliance, Liberal Alliance and Christian Democrats has made a deal to help Ukrainian refugees coming to Denmark. The deal exempts those fleeing from Ukraine from the standard procedures of applying for asylum, and instead creates an express track where they will get almost immediately a temporary residence permit, so they are able to work, study and get health care. Those Ukrainians already in Denmark on work permits will also be able to apply for this permit.
DPP and New Right are against the deal because it includes everyone with a legal stay in Ukraine, i.e. including refugees/migrants from the Middle East and North Africa. The Conservatives had the same opposition, so weren't a part of the deal when presented. However, the party's spokesperson in these negotiations, hard core immigration-sceptic Marcus Knuth, might have gone too far. The party has been barraged with attacks from the media and the other mainstream parties. Local councillors have spoken against it as well, and it seems obvious that several MPs were very uneasy with it. So now it sounds like, the Conservatives will end up backing the deal as well.

Just to clarify, they are opposed to the deal because non-western migrants legally living in Ukraine are allowed to seek asylum in Denmark? I can’t imagine this would apply to many people in practice so it seems an odd hill to die on given the sympathy for Ukrainian refugees atm.

You would think, but there are a surprising number of indians stuck over there.