Venstre’s plan for the rural areas: They want doctors to move into areas outside of the city by providing them with financial incentives to do so (remove 20.000 DKK SU debt for every year spent in a rural area by a newly graduated doctor); the specialist doctors to be more evenly spread around Denmark; give the option for digital consultations with the doctor; better conditions for first-time house buyers; raise the tax deduction from renting out your summer house to 60.000 DKK; lower taxes on houses under 1 million DKK; (14,7% in latest poll)
Konservative’s plan to reduce criminality: They want to introduce harsher punishments (50% more time given for violence and rape; 100% if they are at the second punishment; minimum 1-year prison for drugging other people; minimum 8 years prison if you kill someone while driving; up to 4 years prison for hit and run; up to 4 years for wearing a knife as a white weapon) and get more people to be hired as prison guards (7,7% in latest poll).
- The association of prisons says that there is no more place in the prisons. So initiatives that bring more people to prison and keep them longer should be followed by massive investments in the prison system.
- DD-Inger Støjberg welcomes the Konservative’s plan. DF likes the proposal but they feel there is not enough emphasis on sending home the criminal foreigners. Socialdemokratiet also welcomes the plan, but they think that there are not enough resources available to make it a reality.
- Frie Grønne made a parody about people that feel unsafe going into the basement of their building to wash clothes because of foreigners. Watch here.
Liberal Alliance: The party is positioning on a greener agenda, by supporting a potential CO2 tax. Unfortunately for them, the focus now is on their leader, Alex Vanopslagh and the scandal with getting a free apartment in Copenhagen despite not being qualified to do so (5,7% in latest poll).
Nye Borgerlige: During an interview, Pernille Vermund said that they would like nuclear energy to be introduced in Denmark to avoid energy shortages in the future. How? Container ships with nuclear reactors placed around Denmark. Asked if she will respect her promise to only have 2 mandates in the Danish Parliament (basically making this one the last), she said that times have changed, and so did her intentions (3,9% in the latest poll).
DD-Inger Støjberg: Dropped down to 7,4% in the opinion polls (from 10,3%). Inger’s anti-Copenhagen, anti-immigrants politics are not the main topics in this campaign and that is hurting their support as they are not presenting viable solutions to the current crises.
DD-Inger Støjberg vs. Lars Løkke: There is no love between the two former Venstre leaders. They both started their own political parties on the basis of their personal popularity. Now, they made it clear that a future government cannot comprise both. They simply cannot work with each other. Nye Borgerlige and DF also stated that they cannot work with Lars Løkke.
