What will decide the vote?\u00a0<\/p>\n
While Denmark may have come together to resist the pressure from the White House, voters are\u00a0most concerned about what\u2019s happening at home.\u00a0Ahead of the vote Danish parties debated\u00a0a plethora of\u00a0divisive\u00a0issues, none of which proved decisive. A\u00a0poll published by Epinion<\/a> on Monday\u00a0suggested\u00a0almost one in five Danes\u00a0still\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0know who they\u2019d\u00a0vote for.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Everything suggests that\u00a0Frederiksen\u2019s center-left party, the Social Democrats, will prevail in the vote.\u00a0Her big talking point has been the revival of a\u00a0wealth tax\u00a0that\u00a0hasn\u2019t\u00a0been enforced in Denmark for 30 years, and whose reinstatement would thrill left-wing voters.\u00a0But her main challenger, Deputy Prime Minister Troels Lund\u00a0Poulsen, leader of\u00a0the center-right Venstre party, argues the measure\u00a0will\u00a0prompt the richest Danes to emigrate, weakening the country\u2019s competitiveness.\u00a0<\/p>\n Politicians\u00a0have also debated\u00a0whether to reinstate the country\u2019s \u201cGreat Prayer Day\u201d holiday that Frederiksen\u2019s government abolished in 2024, or to step up efforts to clean polluted drinking water, improve animal welfare,\u00a0lift the ban on nuclear power, increase defense spending, and tighten migration rules.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Red or blue?\u00a0<\/p>\n Denmark\u2019s political spectrum has long been divided between a red bloc of left-leaning parties and a blue bloc on the right. In 2022, however, Frederiksen broke with tradition by forming a broad centrist government. The current coalition brings together her Social Democrats with the\u00a0conservative Venstre\u00a0party and the liberal Moderates led by former Prime Minister Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen.\u00a0<\/p>\n Polls suggest the red and blue blocs are running almost even, with Rasmussen\u2019s Moderates poised to play kingmaker.\u00a0Support for the red bloc currently translates into 83 seats, while the blue bloc would get 80 \u2014 with 90 seats needed for a parliamentary majority. With Frederiksen and Poulsen heading in different directions politically, a repeat of the current coalition government appears unlikely.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n That means Rasmussen\u00a0will likely decide<\/a>\u00a0which direction the country goes in if the elections transpire as forecast. Frederiksen\u00a0has warned<\/a>\u00a0that if Rasmussen doesn\u2019t decide to work with her, \u201cthen we will, with a very high possibility, get a right-wing government in Denmark.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What will decide the vote?\u00a0 While Denmark may have come together to resist the pressure from the White…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[8000,27,26,184,4930,16895,43,1584,57,3933,3396,4897,26658,3654,832,2855,76,9764],"class_list":["post-47268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-animal-welfare","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-elections-in-europe","tag-faroe-islands","tag-foreign-policy","tag-greenland","tag-lars-lokke-rasmussen","tag-mette-frederiksen","tag-migration","tag-morten-messerschmidt","tag-negotiations","tag-nuclear-power","tag-parliament","tag-united-states","tag-water"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116284246146524487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}