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Main articles: Politics of Denmark
'Det Radikale Venstre' (literally: The Radical Left, is a social liberal party in Denmark. It is officially translated by the party as 'Danish Social Liberal Party'. A more traditional English-language name is the 'Radical Liberal Party'.
The party is a member of Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. It was founded in 1905 as a split from the liberal ''Venstre Reform Party''. The literal translation ''radical left'' is nowadays somewhat misleading, as the party is traditionally described as being in the center of the left-right political scale. The use of the word for "left" in the name of the former mother party ''Venstre'' and the Norwegian party ''Venstre'' is meant to refer to Liberalism and not Socialism.
The party president is Søren Bald and it has sixteen members of parliament. By far the most prominent member, however, is former parliament group leader and spokesperson Marianne Jelved, former vice prime minister and minister of economic affairs. The party is currently in opposition.
The party performed well at the 2005 elections. It came out with 9.2% of the popular vote and 17 seats in Parliament, a gain of eight seats. The party remains in opposition to the right-wing coalition, led by the Liberal Party.
Lately the party has been inspired by Richard Florida's book "The rise of the Creative Class". The party have also released their own book/political program called "Det kreative Danmark" (''The Creative Denmark'').
Current issues high on the agenda for the party are:
★ Strong opposition to the tight immigration policies of the current government, particularly the ''24 year rule'' (a measure that prevents foreign spouses of Danish citizens from gaining residence permits if either is under the age of 24, officially to avoid forced marriages).
★ Opposition to the educational policies of the current government, which according to the party stresses centralization, nationalized testing and old-fashioned educational ideas over creativeness, methodical freedom of teachers and personal development of pupils.
★ A major tax reform, which should simplify the tax system in such a way that income taxes will be reduced in favour of more environmental taxes, less tax deductions and higher taxes on real estate. The point of this is to make working more attractive and the hiring of service workers more attractive. This implies that the party is also opposed to the current government's "tax-stop" ''(skattestop)'' which prohibits any tax increases, but also changes of the taxation pattern.
Some prominent members of the party have criticised the current strategy as being too left-leaning and elitist.
On 7 May 2007 MP Naser Khader and MEP Anders Samuelsen announced they left the party and founded the New Alliance (Denmark) along with Conservative MEP Gitte Seeberg. Several background persons of the Social Liberal Party have expressed they are considering to switch to the New Alliance as well. A poll on 8 May showed that the Social Liberal Party would lose 29 % of their former voters to the New Alliance.[1]
At a press release on 15 June 2007, it was announced that MP Margrethe Vestager would take over the leadership of the party after Marianne Jelved, and that the party would rethink it's strategy and will now consider forming a coalition government with either the left or right side of parliament. [2]
★ Marianne Jelved
'''Radikale Venstre'' Leaders since 1928'
★ 1928-1945, Peter Rochegune Munch (1870-1948)
★ 1945-1961, Jørgen Peder Laurids Jørgensen (1888-1974)
★ 1961-1968, Karl Skytte (1908-1986)
★ 1968-1976, Hilmar Baunsgaard (1920-1989)
★ 1976-1978, Svend Haugaard (1913-2003)
★ 1978-1990, Niels Helveg Petersen (b. 1939)
★ 1990-2007, Marianne Jelved (b. 1943)
★ 2007-, Margrethe Vestager (b. 1968)
★ Liberalism
★ Contributions to liberal theory
★ Liberalism worldwide
★ List of liberal parties
★ Liberal democracy
★ Liberalism and radicalism in Denmark
★ Radikal Ungdom the youth wing of the party
1. Ny Alliance henter borgerlige stemmer DR, 8 May 2007.
2. http://dr.dk/Nyheder/Politik/2007/06/15/110511.htm
★ Det Radikale Venstre official site
★ English summary
★ Web site of the party's youth organisation (mainly in Danish)
'Det Radikale Venstre' (literally: The Radical Left, is a social liberal party in Denmark. It is officially translated by the party as 'Danish Social Liberal Party'. A more traditional English-language name is the 'Radical Liberal Party'.
| Contents |
| Origin and alliances |
| Electoral record |
| Internal conflicts |
| Prominent members |
| See also |
| References |
| External links |
Origin and alliances
The party is a member of Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. It was founded in 1905 as a split from the liberal ''Venstre Reform Party''. The literal translation ''radical left'' is nowadays somewhat misleading, as the party is traditionally described as being in the center of the left-right political scale. The use of the word for "left" in the name of the former mother party ''Venstre'' and the Norwegian party ''Venstre'' is meant to refer to Liberalism and not Socialism.
Electoral record
The party president is Søren Bald and it has sixteen members of parliament. By far the most prominent member, however, is former parliament group leader and spokesperson Marianne Jelved, former vice prime minister and minister of economic affairs. The party is currently in opposition.
The party performed well at the 2005 elections. It came out with 9.2% of the popular vote and 17 seats in Parliament, a gain of eight seats. The party remains in opposition to the right-wing coalition, led by the Liberal Party.
Lately the party has been inspired by Richard Florida's book "The rise of the Creative Class". The party have also released their own book/political program called "Det kreative Danmark" (''The Creative Denmark'').
Current issues high on the agenda for the party are:
★ Strong opposition to the tight immigration policies of the current government, particularly the ''24 year rule'' (a measure that prevents foreign spouses of Danish citizens from gaining residence permits if either is under the age of 24, officially to avoid forced marriages).
★ Opposition to the educational policies of the current government, which according to the party stresses centralization, nationalized testing and old-fashioned educational ideas over creativeness, methodical freedom of teachers and personal development of pupils.
★ A major tax reform, which should simplify the tax system in such a way that income taxes will be reduced in favour of more environmental taxes, less tax deductions and higher taxes on real estate. The point of this is to make working more attractive and the hiring of service workers more attractive. This implies that the party is also opposed to the current government's "tax-stop" ''(skattestop)'' which prohibits any tax increases, but also changes of the taxation pattern.
Internal conflicts
Some prominent members of the party have criticised the current strategy as being too left-leaning and elitist.
On 7 May 2007 MP Naser Khader and MEP Anders Samuelsen announced they left the party and founded the New Alliance (Denmark) along with Conservative MEP Gitte Seeberg. Several background persons of the Social Liberal Party have expressed they are considering to switch to the New Alliance as well. A poll on 8 May showed that the Social Liberal Party would lose 29 % of their former voters to the New Alliance.[1]
At a press release on 15 June 2007, it was announced that MP Margrethe Vestager would take over the leadership of the party after Marianne Jelved, and that the party would rethink it's strategy and will now consider forming a coalition government with either the left or right side of parliament. [2]
Prominent members
★ Marianne Jelved
'''Radikale Venstre'' Leaders since 1928'
★ 1928-1945, Peter Rochegune Munch (1870-1948)
★ 1945-1961, Jørgen Peder Laurids Jørgensen (1888-1974)
★ 1961-1968, Karl Skytte (1908-1986)
★ 1968-1976, Hilmar Baunsgaard (1920-1989)
★ 1976-1978, Svend Haugaard (1913-2003)
★ 1978-1990, Niels Helveg Petersen (b. 1939)
★ 1990-2007, Marianne Jelved (b. 1943)
★ 2007-, Margrethe Vestager (b. 1968)
See also
★ Liberalism
★ Contributions to liberal theory
★ Liberalism worldwide
★ List of liberal parties
★ Liberal democracy
★ Liberalism and radicalism in Denmark
★ Radikal Ungdom the youth wing of the party
References
1. Ny Alliance henter borgerlige stemmer DR, 8 May 2007.
2. http://dr.dk/Nyheder/Politik/2007/06/15/110511.htm
External links
★ Det Radikale Venstre official site
★ English summary
★ Web site of the party's youth organisation (mainly in Danish)
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