A record 12 parties represented in parliament, and 8 out of the 12 has gotten between 5 and 11%. To me it looks like there just is not a government to be found anywhere. No right-wing majority without the Moderates, no left-wing majority without the moderates (and the social liberals) and no center-government either, as too many parties don’t want to work with the moderates.
The liberal party refuses to cooperate with the social democrats, the people’s party and Denmark party (both populist far right) refuse to work with the moderates (and the social liberals for that matter), the left green alliance refuses to cooperate with a government that doesn’t include every leftwing party, and everybody refuses to cooperate with the citizens party, and they refuse to cooperate with anyone. Difficult to make any kind of majority
The framing in this article is that the social democrats are the losers of this election, but they are still the biggest party by far, and I think it is simply impossible to imagine a government without them.
Edit: And that is not even going into the Faroe and Greenland mandates.
atchijov on
I do hope that this election was sufficiently protected from Russian AND USA meddling. While Trump is in WH, all elections should be closely scrutinized.
will_dormer on
I feel like the headline is a misleading understanding of Danish politics.
Left_Quarter_5639 on
The headline is just plain wrong. No party has secured a majority, probably since well before WW1.
In the text itself it goes into the blocs. But there has been no clear blocs this election. The outgoing government was certainly not a left wing bloc. She hasn’t been head of government for a left wing bloc this term, and it hasn’t exactly been all roses between the other parties in the supposed left wing bloc.
Edeolus on
Weren’t the Danish SDP supposed to be the shining example of how the centre-left could revive their fortunes simply by having tough immigration policies? Sir Kier Starmer should take note of this result.
Littlepage3130 on
The Danish electorate continues to fragment. Fascinating.
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A record 12 parties represented in parliament, and 8 out of the 12 has gotten between 5 and 11%. To me it looks like there just is not a government to be found anywhere. No right-wing majority without the Moderates, no left-wing majority without the moderates (and the social liberals) and no center-government either, as too many parties don’t want to work with the moderates.
The liberal party refuses to cooperate with the social democrats, the people’s party and Denmark party (both populist far right) refuse to work with the moderates (and the social liberals for that matter), the left green alliance refuses to cooperate with a government that doesn’t include every leftwing party, and everybody refuses to cooperate with the citizens party, and they refuse to cooperate with anyone. Difficult to make any kind of majority
The framing in this article is that the social democrats are the losers of this election, but they are still the biggest party by far, and I think it is simply impossible to imagine a government without them.
Edit: And that is not even going into the Faroe and Greenland mandates.
I do hope that this election was sufficiently protected from Russian AND USA meddling. While Trump is in WH, all elections should be closely scrutinized.
I feel like the headline is a misleading understanding of Danish politics.
The headline is just plain wrong. No party has secured a majority, probably since well before WW1.
In the text itself it goes into the blocs. But there has been no clear blocs this election. The outgoing government was certainly not a left wing bloc. She hasn’t been head of government for a left wing bloc this term, and it hasn’t exactly been all roses between the other parties in the supposed left wing bloc.
Weren’t the Danish SDP supposed to be the shining example of how the centre-left could revive their fortunes simply by having tough immigration policies? Sir Kier Starmer should take note of this result.
The Danish electorate continues to fragment. Fascinating.