Danish Social Democrats suffer worst election result in a century<\/p>\n
Amid rising costs of living<\/a>, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen\u2019s center-left party won just 22% of the vote in yesterday\u2019s nationwide election, marking the Social Democrats\u2019 worst result since 1903. The left-wing Socialist Party and right-wing Danish People\u2019s Party were the beneficiaries, undermining the notion that Frederiksen had somehow cracked the code for halting the rise of populists. And yet, the PM could retain her position \u2013 and she may have US President Donald Trump to thank. Frederiksen was something of a bulwark against Trump when he threatened to seize Greenland earlier this year, boosting her standing at home and ensuring that left-leaning parties won more seats than right-leaning ones on Tuesday. As such, the PM has a viable \u2013 if difficult \u2013 path to building another coalition government.<\/p>\n Israel plans to create and control \u201cbuffer zone\u201d in southern Lebanon<\/p>\n As the \u201cwar within a war\u201d between Israel and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah drives<\/a> on<\/a>, Israel\u2019s Defense Minister Israel Katz said<\/a> his military would take control of parts of southern Lebanon as part of its efforts to destroy its Iran-backed opponent. Hundreds of thousands of residents in southern Lebanon have already fled<\/a> their homes, and Katz said they won\u2019t be able to return until northern Israel is safe. The proposed \u201cbuffer zone\u201d wouldn\u2019t be the first time Israel has occupied Lebanese land. Its army set up a similar stretch of land \u2013 for security purposes \u2013 in 1985, but it retreated 15 years later as images of dead Israeli soldiers being flown back home fostered domestic opposition to the policy. With Hezbollah weakened, will this buffer zone function better than the last?<\/p>\n Democratic presidential hopefuls distance themselves from AIPAC<\/p>\n Israel has been a fault line for Democrats ever since the war in Gaza, and it looks like it will continue to be in the 2028 presidential primary. Several White House hopefuls are now distancing<\/a> themselves from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Despite AIPAC-aligned super PACs pouring<\/a> $22 million into Illinois primaries last week, backing Lieutenant Gov. Juliana Stratton\u2019s successful Senate primary, several once Israel-friendly Democrats are swearing off accepting funds. The retreat, which includes Sen. Cory Booker and, most recently, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, shows how quickly AIPAC has increasingly become a political bogeyman on the left. Polling shows that favorable views of Israel on the left are plummeting<\/a>, and these Democrats are betting that this shift lasts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danish Social Democrats suffer worst election result in a century Amid rising costs of living, Prime Minister Mette…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[28220,108,18324,26,28219,3126,14413,3396],"class_list":["post-50752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-copenhagen","tag-aipac","tag-copenhagen","tag-democratic-party","tag-denmark","tag-hezbollah","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-mette-frederiksen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116308625653745475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50752","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=50752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}