Mette Frederiksen, Søren Pape and Jakob Ellemann-Jensen faced each other for the first time in a presidential debate over who should be the next prime minister of Denmark.
- The blue camp managed well the disadvantage of having two prime minister candidates. For the voters it’s clear that Søren and Jakob have different economic visions for Denmark and a blue government will look different depending on who will be at the helm.
- The conservative prime minister candidate Søren Pape has been attacked by both Mette and Jakob over his economic vision for Denmark that will affect the welfare state. 40.000 public employees would lose their jobs, according to them.
- The social democrat prime minister candidate Mette Frederiksen has been attacked on the presumption that she is “too powerful”. She replied that she is the “safe hand at the wheel during difficult times”. Denmark is going from crisis to crisis in the last couple of years and a blue government brings uncertainty about the future.
- Mette Frederiksen has also signalled to the public employees that they deserve higher salaries, although she cannot do much about it. The Danish model says that salaries are negotiated between the employees and employers, without political interference.
