According to a new poll conducted by Megafon for TV2 and Politiken, the Blue Bloc (the opposition) is expected to receive more votes than the Red Bloc (the current government party and supporting parties).
The poll results revealed a resounding surprise with the rise of the Danish Democrats party, which was recently formed by former parliamentarian Inger Støjberg, who was expelled from the Liberal Party after spending twenty years in it, on the grounds that she was brought to trial for breaking the law when she ordered the separation of married Syrian refugees if one of them was under 18 years old. The element of surprise lies in the fact that a newly established party achieved an advanced position among voters in the poll, thus occupying the fourth position among 16 parliamentary parties that will compete to secure parliamentary seats and form the Danish government.
Just two weeks ago, Inger Støjberg, known for her hardline stance on immigrants and refugees, collected more than 20,182 voter signatures—the minimum required to establish a new party—in less than a day.
According to the poll, Inger Støjberg’s new “Danish Democrats” party will receive 10.8% votes in its first election, noting that it has not yet announced its election program.
According to TV2, Inger Støjberg not only sees the result as a new record but also as causing serious bruises to a large number of former colleagues, as she commented: “I think and hope that the reason for this is that the Danes know very well where I stand and what I want to fight for. It is of course a really good start, but there is also a long way to go.”.
The situation looks much worse for the Danish People's Party, which in the new poll is on the verge of being completely excluded from parliament, and may actually risk that if it does not get enough votes in the election.
It is noted that the new poll was conducted a few days after the Mink Commission published its report, which concluded that Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen had greatly misled the public when she announced the decision to kill all mink in Denmark at a press conference on November 4, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. This criticism apparently did not go unnoticed by voters.
According to the poll, the ruling party will get 21.7% of the votes, which is 2.9 percentage points lower than the previous poll and 4.2 percentage points lower since the 2019 elections, meaning a loss of 9 seats.
Megaphone asked voters why they had changed their minds about electing the Social Democratic Party (the ruling party), and they briefly pointed to three specific factors: the monopoly of power, foreign policy, and the government.
