Frederiksen must call an election no later than June next year, but the basis for her red government has begun to shake. Since last summer, the Radikale Left support party has been demanding that the Prime Minister call an election in connection with the opening of the Folketing on October 4, otherwise the party will withdraw its support and bring down the government.
The leaders of six parties on the right – Venstre, Konservative folke parti, Danmarksdemokraterne, Dansk folke parti, Nye borgerlige and Liberal alliance – write together in BT magazine that Frederiksen has already put government work aside to start running a kind of election campaign.
The party leaders further point to rising inflation and a crisis in healthcare as good reasons to hold elections as soon as possible. They state that the Swedish government, after many ups and downs, has invited negotiations on an important psychiatric reform, “five in the election”.
“Every day pictures are posted on Instagram of the prime minister, who is out campaigning, while she asks her ministers to call in all sorts of strange negotiation meetings,” says Conservative People’s Party leader Søren Pape Poulsen to BT.
Social Democratic party leader Rasmus Stoklund believes that it is the opposition that is trying to campaign in this way.