Moderates (Denmark)

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Not to be confused with the Swedish Moderate Party.
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Moderates
Moderaterne
AbbreviationM
ChairmanLars Løkke Rasmussen
Founded5 June 2022 (2022-06-05)
Split fromVenstre
HeadquartersLyskær 8, 2730 Herlev
Think tankDet Politiske Mødested
Youth wingUnge Moderaterda
IdeologyLiberalism
Political positionCentre to centre-right
European affiliationAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe[1]
European Parliament groupRenew Europe[2]
International affiliationLiberal International
Nordic affiliationCentre Group
Colours
  •   Purple (official)
  •   Light purple (customary)[3]
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Municipal councils
32 / 2,436
Regions
2 / 205
Election symbol
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Website
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The Moderates (Danish: Moderaterne [mɔˈdɛʁɑˀtɐnə]) is a liberal political party in Denmark founded by former prime minister and current minister of foreign affairs Lars Løkke Rasmussen.[4] He announced the name in a foundational speech on 5 June 2021. At the same time, he said that his main scenario was that the party would be formed after the 2021 Danish local elections.[5][6] The name was, according to Rasmussen, inspired by the fictitious Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg's party Moderaterne in the hit political TV drama Borgen (itself allegedly inspired by the Social Liberal Party) as well as the Swedish Moderate Party, the then–second largest party in the Swedish Riksdag.[7][8] The Moderates' political position is referred to as centre[9][10] to centre-right.[11]

According to Rasmussen, Moderaterne is a centrist party that has the ambition to create "progress and change in a crossroads between a blue bloc that is tormented by value politics and a red bloc that is stuck in a past view of individual and state".[12] Thus, it is not aligned with either bloc in the Folketing.[13] The party began collecting voting declarations in June 2021. On 15 September 2021 Lars Løkke Rasmussen announced that they had received the 20,182 signatures needed to be eligible to stand in the 2022 Danish general election.[14][15][16]

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Lars Løkke Rasmussen, founder of the party

The Moderates saw a surge in popularity during campaigning for the 2022 general election, eventually ending up as the third largest party with 16 seats,[17] as polls had suggested.[18] They had positioned themselves as kingmakers in deciding who the next prime minister should be,[19] but the incumbent red bloc won a majority, thus preventing the Moderates from having the decisive seats in the next government.[20] Despite this, the Moderates entered negotiations with the Social Democrats and Venstre and successfully formed a grand coalition government, the Frederiksen II Cabinet.[21]

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Initial party logo

Election results

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Parliament

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Election Leader Votes % Seats +/- Government
2022 Lars Løkke Rasmussen 327,699 9.27 (#3)
16 / 179
 New Coalition

European Parliament

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Year List leader Votes % Seats +/– EP Group
2024 Stine Bosse 145,698 5.95 (#10)
1 / 15
 New RE

Notes

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  1. ^ Only 175 of the 179 seats in the Danish Parliament, the Folketing, are obtainable by Danish political parties as Greenland and the Faroe Islands are assigned two seats each due to their status as territories in the Kingdom of Denmark.

See also

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References

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