11 Responses to “folketingsvalg”

1. Renzo Says:
   October 27th, 2007 at 2:00 pm

   I also gave it a go, I hope I got all the questions right… But based on the ‘least agree with’, I probably did in most of the cases.

   Du er mest enig med:
   B. Det Radikale Venstre: Michael Gravesen (79%)
   B. Det Radikale Venstre: Morten Kirk Jensen (77%)
   B. Det Radikale Venstre: Daniel Nyboe Andersen (76%)

   Du er mindst enig med:
   C. Det Konservative Folkeparti: Jakob Næsager (23%)
   O. Dansk Folkeparti: Carsten Kudsk (27%)
   O. Dansk Folkeparti: Jytte Lauridsen (30%)

2. rico Says:
   October 27th, 2007 at 2:19 pm

   cool! I’m trying to find some more tests now.

3. Michael Hedelund Says:
   October 29th, 2007 at 5:12 pm

   Yeah, to bad you can’t vote Just found your blog while googling my own name – a classic.

   I can assure you that the reason you got me on the list isn’t due to your statement: “It seems that the parties here take less stand as a whole but let their individual members speak out their opinions.” I’ve taken great part in (re-)defining the ideology and corevalues of the party, so I’m very much in thread with Kristendemokraterne (KD). But I suppose you were referring to the socialdemocrats, but better be safe…

   The Danish Christiandemocrats, KD, is a centerparty (at this election even calling for the socialdemocratic Helle Thorning Schmidt as primeminister) whereas the Dutch CDA would define themselves as center/right, and you would probably call them a rightwing party. Just like all other ideology based parties, you will find some variation from country to country. As an example christiandemocrats in South America is very commonly seen as leftwing parties.

   So don’t get scared of by our shared ideological base with CDA, even though I as a Dane anwould prefer CDA from the Danish Konservative, Venstre or Dansk Folkeparti! But that maybe says more about the danish rightwing than it does about the dutch rightwing.

   Regards

   Michael Hedelund
   Kristendemokraterne / Christiandemocrats

4. Renzo Says:
   October 29th, 2007 at 5:30 pm

   To follow up on Michael’s contribution, I’ve always thought that if a Christian-democratic party would be anything other than a center party, it should be tilting to the left (like our Dutch ‘Christenunie’ is). I never saw how you could ‘go right wing’, so to say, based on the ideological base these parties have.

5. rico Says:
   October 29th, 2007 at 5:34 pm

   First of all, thanks Michael for your comment. And as indeed I already described in my later post, I would indeed map Kristendemokraterne more on the Dutch ChristenUnie than the CDA.

6. Renzo Says:
   October 29th, 2007 at 5:47 pm

   Still leaves the question how you can get a candidate with a 78% match and one with a 39% match from the same party. Sounds like they don’t really agree on stuff within the party…

   If Michael is still around and willing to spend precious election time on some Dutchies (who can’t vote anyway…) wondering how Danish politics works, I (or we, I guess) would appreciate it very much.

7. Michael Hedelund Says:
   October 29th, 2007 at 5:53 pm

   You welcome, and sorry I first saw your latter post now.

   Anyway, It might be even more tricky as I seem to recall that ChristianUnie is a more confessional party, meaning that they tend not to hold christianty at the value-level but fx. would require that candidates are christians. Christiandemocratic parties (inkl. KD and CDA) would usually seperate ideology/values and the personal belief, using christianity (the bible etc.) solely as a filosofical valuebase and not as direct political guidelines. But maybe ChristianUnie does that as well, but I ever meet anyone from the party in european politics.

   Hope I’m not to geeky – but I’m very keen on the ideological aspects of politics, more than political spin anyways.

   Regards

8. Michael Hedelund Says:
   October 29th, 2007 at 6:04 pm

   As regarding the 78% / 39% socialdemocratic (mis-)match, – I’m not able to give you a better answer than these possibilities:
   1) Because the party is so large in number of members, it’s also quite broad in political views, and thats reflected by the candidates
   2) The Socialdemocrats have moved from leftwing to left/center, and therefor there will be leftwing candidates as well as leftwing/center candidates.
   3) Any question about EU divides the candidates in particular at SF and Socialdemokraterne, and tSocialdemokraterne is also quite divided on the asylum/immigrant/refugee issues.

   And the not so serious explanation:
   4) Every party has at least one weirdo as candidate?

   Regards

9. Renzo Says:
   October 29th, 2007 at 7:34 pm

   @Michael: Thanks for the explanation(s). I guess we Dutchies are used to having every party member defend the party viewpoints/programme, especially during election time, so this wide variety of opinions within a party would be less visible than it seems to be in Denmark. A test like the one that started this whole discussion would also be on the party level in The Netherlands.

   And you could be right about the ChristenUnie being more confessional, I am not sure about that, but wouldn’t be surprised if they were. It does seem to lead to more ‘leftish’ politics than in CDA’s case. I mostly assume they start out with a similar value base, confessional or not, and then wonder how they sometimes end up quite far apart.

10. Daniel Nyboe Andersen Says:
    November 2nd, 2007 at 12:33 am

    @ Renzo
    Nice result.
    Not bad at all! ;o)

11. Daniel Nyboe Andersen Says:
    November 2nd, 2007 at 12:38 am

    @ Michael
    I see the point in your explanations. You´re forgetting one:
    At the 2005 Danish election there was some candidate from my own party that ended up in the button three when I did the test. Rumors told me that he did the test wrong – mistaking the “least agree” and “most agree”. If it´s true or ot I don´t know, but it is a possibility…

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