Although the party of Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (43) remains the strongest party in the country at just under 28 percent, its popularity is waning in the major cities. Its strict immigration and integration policy is not widely appreciated.
The choice to take a conservative path, which Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen won in parliamentary elections in 2019, is returning as a rebound. The German newspaper wrote that voters had suddenly turned their backs on her Social Democratic Party Southgerman newspaper. In Copenhagen, her party suffered a “historic defeat”. Danish daily newspaper Berlingsky He describes the drop of nearly 4 percentage points as a “slap in the face” for the Social Democrats. Although Frederiksen, according to Danish public radio, is “experiencing the worst crisis” during her tenure, the ruling party remains the country’s strongest with only 28 percent.
The biggest loser in the local elections was the populist right-wing Danish People’s Party (DF). It lost half its voters, dropping from 8.7 percent to 4.1 percent. That number fell below 5 percent for the first time in 20 years. Low point for a party that won a record number of votes in the 2014 European elections with 26.6 per cent. The skeptical EU party has long played an important role on the Danish political scene, but it has faced a crisis in recent years, receiving only 8.7 percent of the vote in the 2019 parliamentary elections, compared to 21.1 percent four years ago. Leader Christian Tholsen Dahl is unable to turn the tide and announced on Wednesday that he will resign as party chief at the next party congress. Dahl succeeded far-right leader Pia Kiersgaard in 2012.
The first German mayor
The demise of the Democratic Party is attributed, among other things, to the difficult path taken by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democratic government. In terms of immigration. But the rise of the new right-wing populist neoconservative party also plays a role: It won 3.6 percent of the vote on Tuesday, compared with 0.9 percent four years ago. The conservative People’s Party also rose sharply to 15.2 percent.
Another notable winner came from the municipality of Tonder, on the border with Germany. There, 58-year-old Jürgen Pope Petersen became Denmark’s first German mayor.
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