Denmark Parliamentary Election - June 18, 2015

[Jens]

Ok, but it still suggests that the environment doesn't matter much to them, and that a policy to increase jobs at the expense of the environment would be approved overall. However, as I noted, this is a small sample of voters.

Small sample, with that great unsecurity that gives

[Jens]

Socialist People's Party was founded in 1958/59 as a Euro-Communist breakaway from the Moscow lapdog Communist Party of Denmark. It later incorporated large segments from the environmentalist, feminist and peace movements from the 70s and 80s as well as the lefty part of the Grundtvigian Folk High School movement (leaving them with the highest share of Lutheran Ministers of any party..). Despite being clobbered in the 2011 election SPP decided to enter government afterwards (for the first time ever), but got steamrolled on all major issues and had to leave after heavy internal infighting leading most of the party's Social Democratic "workerite" right wing to leave. After hovering dangerously close to the threshold the party is now stabilised a couple of percentage points below their (deeply unsatisfactory..) 2011 result by the new leader Pia Olsen Dyhr. It is spit between a Democratic Socialist left wing encompassing most of the membership and a Green right wing (with most of the leadership talent - incl. Olsen Dyhr) that would like the party to resemble the German Die Grüne.

Oh, come on Politicus - while the polls where much better, the 2011 election result for SF was the second best since 1987, 25 years!
And your idea that the majority of the membership of SF is in some kind of conflict with the leadership is complete nonsense... Don't believe everything that Berlingske and Jyllandsposten writes. If you want to read articles by someone who actually has good sources in SF, unlike fx. Thomas Larsen from Berlingske, who is polling analysis out of his arse, you should read Elisabeth Svane fra Fyns Stiftstidende.

[Jens]

Things seem to be getting interesting with entry of this  Riskær guy lol.

They have just kicked him out of the party again...

[Jens]

I was just asking, because if elected she would have been one of the hottest MPs anywhere for sure.

As the other Danes said. She isn't running for parliament, yet. She is studying retoric at the University of Copenhagen. I've met her a few times and she is quite nice, eventhough we don't agree on much politically

[Jens]

Enjoy TV-2 News completely messing up a graph
DF larger that the Social Democrats, despite SD getting 4 % more. B (Radikale Venstre) twice as big as SF with 0,1 % more of the votes. And the Conservatives bigger that SF and LA

[Jens]

The PM didn't called for an elections today, but the rumour machine is running wild and there is a good change that the election will be called tomorrow or Thursday.

[Jens]

Election just called for 18. June

Latest poll was 48 % for red bloc, 52 % for blue bloc. It could be close.
And now - out with the election posters

[Jens]

The Muslim burial place at Brøndby was desecrated last night...
http://www.bt.dk/danmark/muslimsk-gravplads-udsat-for-haervaerk
The local police calls it pranks... 

[Jens]

Just voted - pretty packed at my polling place but fast and efficient thanks to the new voting card scanning system
People looked quite happy and the sun started shining too

But I'm pretty sure this is going to be a nail biter and that some parts of the polls is going to turn out dead wrong

[Jens]

Pictures of the campaign:



SPP leader Pia Olsen Dyhr targeting the children (and the hipsters) with these versions of her election poster

That's my friends kid on that picture

[Jens]

Lars Løkke Rasmussen has just given up on creating a majority government with all four parties. It seems like this was almost just a media stunt from the Liberal Alliance to show that "we really want to be in government" despite it being almost impossible to make such a majority government with policies that would be acceptable to them.
A new round at the queen tomorrow, and this time all the right-wing parties will just say that they want Løkke to form a government. I think it will then come down to whether it will be a Liberal government or a Liberal-DPP government.

There is some pretty substantial rumours that LA want to join a Venstre-government. Especially the former RV-politicians Anders Samuelsen and Simon Emil Amitzbøl are quite keen. but we'll see about that