With Mads Fuglede’s switch from the Liberal Party to the Danish Democrats, the government can no longer secure a domestic political majority with the support of independent Jon Stephensen.
The government already lost its domestic political majority when Mike Fonseca quit the Moderates in the autumn.
But independent Jon Stephensen soon afterwards told BT that he was about to go to the polls for a government above the middle, and that he therefore did not want to overthrow the government.
– Of course, this also means that I vote with the government on most things, Stephensen told BT
There are four North Atlantic mandates in the Danish Parliament, but they are usually left out when it comes to domestic political matters.
Mads Fuglede wrote on Facebook on Tuesday that he is switching from the Liberal Party to the Danish Democrats. Here he justifies the change with, among other things, dissatisfaction with the fact that the Liberal Party has entered government.
He also criticizes an upcoming CO2 tax on agriculture.
– I was very much against the government’s participation and many of the decisions that came from it. I completely disagree with the latest decision to impose a CO2 tax on agriculture. And nowhere will that decision hit harder than in West Jutland. That is why I am switching to the Danish Democrats, he writes on Facebook.
Mads Fuglede is on maternity leave until April and will then return to Christiansborg to the Danish Democrats’ parliamentary group.
Kim Edberg Andersen, who was previously in Nye Borgerlige, is also switching to the Danish Democrats. In the past, the Liberal Party has spoken warmly about bringing him into the group.
Venstre’s chairman, Troels Lund Poulsen, does not believe, however, that the government’s life is threatened.
You have to put cold water in your blood, he says from Germany, where he is attending a meeting at a military base.
– Now I think you have to put cold water in your blood. First of all, we have support – in the event of a motion of no confidence – from the North Atlantic mandates, says Troels Lund Poulsen.
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2024-03-19 08:49:07
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