Current Events > It looks like Denmark will get a new government after their nationalists crumble

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Dansk Folkeparti drop from 21.1% in 2015 to 8.7% in yesterdays election and lose 21 of their 37 seats in Folketinget.

A new far-right party does enter Folketinget but only with 4 seats. So the Danish far-right is fractured and diminished.

The Socialdemocrats and their potential partners in Red, Green and Socialliberal parties get majority if they work together.

Denmark has been ruled by right-leaning Classical Liberals together with Dansk Folkeparti over the past four years.

The Socialdemocrats in Denmark hold very strict immigration policies though mixed with strongly left-leaning policies on welfare, healthcare, education and taxation for the rich. I believe they are liberal in terms of LGBT-rights and abortion.
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The Nordic countries are turning Left again after many years of Right-wing rule.

Sweden re-elected a SocDem PM in September 2018 after Right-wing rule from October 2006-2014. Finland just elected a SocDem PM after right-leaning politics for many years. And Denmark just elected a SocDem.

Norway re-elected its Conservative PM in 2017 though but it was with a very narrow margin and Erna Solberg need to keep the Christian Democratic opposition party happy because they agree to support the Government with their 8 seats in exchange for a lot of influence. The Government hold 80 seats while all of the opposition combined hold 89.
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See, this is what happens when the mainstream parties actually do something about the immigration issue instead of ignoring it for ages and just pulling the "Nazi" card on dissenters.
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BalanceLost posted...

Sweden re-elected a SocDem PM in September 2018

Typo?
Lfven was elected 2014.
If anything, he lost a bit of power in 2018.
Atleast until Annie Lf went and broke every promise she's ever made
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ROBANN_88 posted...

See, this is what happens when the mainstream parties actually do something about the immigration issue instead of ignoring it for ages

This is something we agree on you and I. And I hope the shift in our politics will continue down a similar path.

ROBANN_88 posted...

BalanceLost posted...

Sweden re-elected a SocDem PM in September 2018

Typo?
Lfven was elected 2014.
If anything, he lost a bit of power in 2018.
Atleast until Annie Lf went and broke every promise she's ever made

No I meant re-elected since he remained PM and his partys traditional rival shrunk a lot more and S is the largest party by quite a margin. But yes, it took a lot of negotiating and lol Annie Lf tbh.
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The Socdems lost 13 mandates.
The Red-Green coalition went down from 159 to 144, and Lfven was at first rejected.
Dropping down to a 1-mandate tie
(with SD rising dramatically)

So putting us in the "Turning left again" category is a massive oversimplification bordering on downright false.
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i don't really follow politics
so this means a stricter rules on refugees?

ROBANN_88 posted...

The Socdems lost 13 mandates.
The Red-Green coalition went down from 159 to 144, and Lfven was at first rejected.
Dropping down to a 1-mandate tie
(with SD rising dramatically)

So putting us in the "Turning left again" category is a massive oversimplification bordering on downright false.

And M lost even more. But I admit the national move to the left was more apparent in 2014s election. SD did grow, but less than polls predicted for once. We must also remember that even though SD itself is a far-right party, a large chunk (close to half) of its base is Left-leaning except for on immigration which is an issue which exist beyond traditional Left-Right politics to be honest. The rural SD voters arent exactly fans of tax cuts and the free markets - they want the S policies of the 50s-70s.

The reason Alliansen as a whole made some gains was mainly because C grew and Cs new voters lean left (many are disappointed Greens). Annie Lf and her closest circle lean right on taxation and worker rights but the party lean left on a load of issues and the reason C formed a new Alliance to the Left is because around 90% of their base wanted the party to go left in a poll the party did during the Government negotiations. C and L are both centrist parties at their core so they cannot be included in the Right and only started working with M back in 2003-2004 since Reinfeldt moved M left towards the centre.

And at the end of the day: A left-leaning PM who isnt super popular got re-elected and the 3 Right-wing parties are very marginalised in Riksdagen. So the SocDems played their cards very well.
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HunkDude posted...

i don't really follow politics
so this means a stricter rules on refugees?

Not stricter but as strict as then the far-right held control over the Government on immigration.
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As a lefty in a western nation a lot of folks think I want open borders. I don't, I'm just not interested in the pointless cruelty that seems to follow the far right on the issue.

Anyway, more on topic, very interesting, and I'm glad to hear that Nordic countries are rejecting right wing politics
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BalanceLost posted...

SD itself is a far-right party, a large chunk (close to half) of its base is Left-leaning except for on immigration which is an issue which exist beyond traditional Left-Right politics to be honest.

hm.
i guess, maybe
honestly, i have little to no idea what their non-immigration related standpoints are.

C grew and Cs new voters lean left (many are disappointed Greens).

i never quite understood this. C went in to the election saying stuff like "a vote for C is a vote for the Right wing Alliansen", "we're gonna kick Lfven out on his ass" and "i'll eat my right shoe before i support the SocDems" (paraphrased)
why would the lefties vote for that in such a mass that she then see an opportunity to just completely switch gear and become a Sosse lapdog?
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