Danes end far-right’s influence

[pampango]

http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=67993&Cat=1

The election of Denmark’s centre-left opposition spells an end to the far-right’s decade-long influence, but its indelible mark remains on the country’s immigration policies, observers said on Friday.

For many though, it was the fall from grace of the outgoing government’s key parliamentary ally, the populist anti-immigration Danish People’s Party, that elicited the most excitement. “I’m so happy there’s going to be a paradigm shift in Danish politics,” said Yidiz Akdogan, a member of the outgoing parliament for the Social Democrats, who are set to lead the next government. “After 10 years with the extraordinarily harsh rhetoric of the Danish People’s Party on immigration, we need a new agenda,” the parliamentarian of Turkish origin told AFP.

Social Democrat leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who is trying to pull together a broad centre-left government, has vowed to soften immigration and integration policies.

Rune Stubager, an election researcher at Aarhus University, cautioned not to expect a radical break from the past. While the DPP kept the exiting government afloat, Thorning-Schmidt’s cabinet will depend on support from the centrist Social Liberals and the far-left Red Greens, which each gained eight seats in the election and which both want far looser immigration restrictions.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Jeg lykønsker og takker det danske folk.

I send congratulations and thanks to the people of Denmark.

[LWolf]

2. I'm glad somebody's managed it. nt

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Hmmm ... Denmark ... might move there after all ... nt

[southmost]

4. good news!