Campaign briefs – Day 14
Red/Greens close in on DPP / Christian Democrats back in the race / Frederiksen’s about turn on cigarettes / MP candidate steps down after burglary report… The populist Danish People’s Party, who enjoyed…
Election 2019: Extremist party could win 4 seats
The far-right Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party is on course for parliament but the anti-migrant New Conservatives could lose out. Stram Kurs is at 2.4% in the latest Voxmeter poll, which would give…
The Week That Was, May 13th – May 16th 2019
Politics: Election 2019 The opposition’s lead in the polls is turning into a landslide – if an election was held right now the ‘red bloc’ parties would win by 57%-43% merging giving them…
Protecting extremist costs the police DKK41m
The police have spent DKK41m ($6.2m) so far this year protecting anti-Islamist Rasmus Paludan and his far-right Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party at demonstrations and rallies throughout the country. Police documents obtained by…
Coalition parties exclude Stram Kurs
The three government coalition parties have dismissed any possibility of working alongside the ‘Stram Kurs’ (Hard Line) party after the election. While the Danish People’s Party (DPP) and anti-migrant New Conservatives haven’t totally…
Election Briefs:
Porn, swastikas, exclusion for fascist…but immigration isn’t a big issue… The Liberal Alliance’s Joachim B. Olsen has defended paying for an advert on porn website, Pornhub, in which he tells sex-surfers: “When you’ve…
The Week That Was, May 5th – May 12th 2019
Politics/Economy: Election 2019: After months of speculation Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen finally named the date for the general election – Constitution Day, June 5th. As the election campaign got underway a new…
Anti-Islamist calls for eradication of all Muslims
In a previously unknown YouTube video head of the far-right right ‘Stram Kurs’ (Hard Line) party, Rasmus Paludan, appears to call for the extermination of Muslims throughout the world. In the December 2018…
Election briefs – Day 3
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen took a time-out from the election campaign to attend the one-day informal summit in the central Romanian city of Sibiu where EU leaders gathered to discuss “Europe’s place…
Election briefs – Day 2
The New Conservatives’ lead candidate in Copenhagen was detained by the police, Wednesday, and charged with sharing a video of the brutal slaying of two Danish and Norwegian backpackers in Morocco. Jeppe Juhl…
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