Denmark to Be Led by Its First Female Premier as Leftists Win
Denmark to Be Led by Its First Female Premier as Leftists Win
highlights from the NYTimes article:
One feature of the decade-long rule of the center-right parties that seemed unlikely to change significantly was the tight new restraints on immigration, which have most heavily affected Denmark’s population of about 200,000 Muslims, many of them asylum seekers. With Muslims now accounting for nearly 4 percent of the population, according to the United States State Department, and Islam now the largest non-Christian denomination in the country, opinion polls have shown strong support for the controls, which Ms. Thorning-Schmidt said any government she led would maintain.
The anti-immigration Danish People’s Party, which formed the third-largest bloc in the previous Parliament, won 22 seats, down 3 seats from 2007. It will become an opposition party, and Pia Kjaersgaard, the party’s leader, said it would oppose any relaxation of immigration controls. The party successfully pushed for Denmark’s withdrawal from the so-called Schengen group of countries that established a “borderless” Europe, and Denmark reimposed its own frontier controls.
highlights from the NYTimes article:
One feature of the decade-long rule of the center-right parties that seemed unlikely to change significantly was the tight new restraints on immigration, which have most heavily affected Denmark’s population of about 200,000 Muslims, many of them asylum seekers. With Muslims now accounting for nearly 4 percent of the population, according to the United States State Department, and Islam now the largest non-Christian denomination in the country, opinion polls have shown strong support for the controls, which Ms. Thorning-Schmidt said any government she led would maintain.
The anti-immigration Danish People’s Party, which formed the third-largest bloc in the previous Parliament, won 22 seats, down 3 seats from 2007. It will become an opposition party, and Pia Kjaersgaard, the party’s leader, said it would oppose any relaxation of immigration controls. The party successfully pushed for Denmark’s withdrawal from the so-called Schengen group of countries that established a “borderless” Europe, and Denmark reimposed its own frontier controls.
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