On the evening of Sunday October 30, there were no less than fourteen people to debate on the same set during the penultimate televised debate scheduled before the legislative elections on Tuesday 1is November in Denmark. Fourteen formations in the running, it had not happened since 1987. The fact that three of them have appeared since the previous parliamentary election, three years and five months ago, adds to the uncertainty in this country where the threshold minimum to cross to enter the Parliament is to obtain 2% of the voices. “No other election campaign has been like the one in 2022”notes, in tune with other political commentators, Elisabet Svane in The politics (center left). On the eve of the election, “we still don’t know who will form the government”.
Fact, “neither the ‘red camp’ nor the ‘blue camp’ have the majority according to the average of all the polls” published here and there, observes the daily Jyllands-Posten (liberal). In the red camp, which goes to the center left, the Social Democratic Party of Mette Frederiksen, the outgoing Prime Minister, prances in the lead with an average of 25.6% of voting intentions. In the blue, the Liberals would save their second place with 13% of the vote, but lose almost half of their voters compared to 2019.
“The Decisive Seats” to form the next government