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dutch vs danish politics

rico — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:36:22 +0000

First reaction: glad I don’t live there. And then I made this comparison. It doesn’t differ that much actually.

CDA 14% – Konservative 10%
VVD 21% – Venstre 26%
PVDA 20% – Socialdemokraterne 25%
SP 10% – Socialistisk Folkeparti 13%
GL 7% – Enhedslisten 2%
PVV 16% – Dansk Folkeparti 14%
D66 7% – Radikale Venstre 5%

danish politics

rico — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:40:13 +0000

Gotta love Danish politics.. They spend MONTHS (I don’t even want to know how much money has been spent on that) discussing whether or not to forbid burka’s, only to find out there’s only three (3!) persons wearing them in Denmark

folketingsvalg 2

rico — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:30:41 +0000

Aha! While trying to map the Danish political parties on the Dutch, I think I found out why the Kristendemokraterne ended up on my list. Ok, this is what I, from a first impression, think how they map:

Socialdemokraterne – PvdA
Det Radikale Venstre – D66
Det Konservative Folkeparti – VVD
Socialistisk Folkeparti – SP
Kristendemokraterne – ChristenUnie
Dansk Folkeparti – Wilders
Venstre – CDA
Enhedslisten – Groenlinks
Ny Alliance – Hmm, I find it hard to place this party. It considers itself a center party.

In Holland the ChristenUnie is quite a left-wing party (more than the social democrats) but with a christian touch. They always showed up on my advice.

The most interesting I find is Venstre who call themselves literally Left but are in fact right of the center, just like the Dutch christian democrats. I now understand that Venstre in Scandinavian politics is more often used as a term for liberalism than socialism.

folketingsvalg

rico — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:46:51 +0000

I just did an online voting advice at the TV2 website:

Du er mest enig med:
A. Socialdemokraterne: Yildiz Akdogan (78%)
K. Kristendemokraterne: Michael Hedelund (77%)
K. Kristendemokraterne: Andreas Klein Eriksen (73%)

Du er mindst enig med:
O. Dansk Folkeparti: Anet Burchard (24%)
A. Socialdemokraterne: Michael Vindfeldt (39%)
Ø. Enhedslisten: Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen (40%)

While in Holland I would always end up with the post-communistic socialist party (SP), here I seem to end up with the Socialdemokraterne (Social Democrats, Labour, PvdA equivalent in Holland). What I find surprising is that there’s also a member of the social democrats on my list of people where I agree the least with. And Kristendemokraterne (Christian Democrats, CDA).. how did that end up on my list? I’d never ever vote that in Holland. It seems that the parties here take less stand as a whole but let their individual members speak out their opinions, at least a lot more than they do in Holland.

Ok, back to my saturday edition of Politiken to read more about these parties and their stands.

Too bad I can’t vote…