Immigration policies & votes. Danish Social Democrats lose Copenhagen Mayoralty for first time since 1903
On Monday Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced in the Commons that Labour planned to adopt a policy on asylum seekers that is being promoted by the Danish social-democrats. They are a centre-left party broadly in the same area as Starmer Labour.
On Tuesday there were elections in Copenhagen. The Red-Green Alliance and the Green Left got 40% of the vote up from 35.6% while the Social Democrats got 12.7% down from 17.2%. One result is that the Social Democrats lost the Mayoralty of Copenhagen something they held since 1903.
In elections elsewhere in Denmark the vote for the far right increased but only slightly.
The decline in the Social Democrat vote as it pursued a great moving right show underscores similar crisis for other social-democratic parties across Europe. So far Labour has escaped….
Guardian report
Among the reasons cited by analysts for the Social Democrats’ decline in Copenhagen were voter fatigue over the prime minister’s hardline policies on issues such as integration and immigration, which have partly inspired a newly unveiled asylum and migration policy in Britain.
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