The longest negotiations for a government in modern times. However, we seem to be very close to a historical Socialdemokratiet-Venstre government. A red-blue government led by Mette Frederiksen. The times ahead will not be fun for the government, as the treasury is empty and most likely, there will be no new initiatives funded until 2030.
Key moments from the negotiations this week:
- Konservative left the negotiations. They will not be part of the government. Instead, they will attempt to revive the “blue block” and lead it from the opposition.
- SF also withdrew from the negotiations. We have now a unique situation where we have opposition to the government from both sides – blue and red. According to SF, the negotiations have become “too blue” for them to accept.
- Liberal Alliance and DF are still part of the negotiations. However, Liberal Alliance stated “it is hard to understand why a blue party should join a Mette Frederiksen government”. Most likely, Liberal Alliance will also leave the negotiations soon. Also, DF didn’t have any meetings with Mette Frederiksen in the past two weeks.
- My opinion is that the new government will be formed from 4 parties: Socialdemokratiet (red), Radikale Venstre (red), Venstre (blue) and Moderaterne (purple). For us as internationals it is important that parties friendly towards us like Radikale Venstre and Moderaterne are part of the government.
- The social democrat youth (DSU) has warned Mette Frederiksen that if the government moves too far away from social-democratic values (like they did during Helle Thorning times), they will not hesitate to join the opposition. In a similar manner, the liberal youth (VU) has warned their mother party (Venstre) to not betray the liberal values.
- An analysis made by TV2, shows that in the past four years, Socialdemokratiet and Venstre voted the same 82% out of the 1,058 decisions taken in the Danish Parliament.
- The blue parties that have already left the negotiations (DD and Nye Borgerlige) are threatening Venstre, that once it leaves the blue block, there is no return. They will not support Jakob Ellemann as prime minister candidate at the next round of parliamentary elections in 2026.
