Liberal Alliance (Denmark)
Liberal Alliance | |
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Abbreviation | LA I[a] |
Leader | Alex Vanopslagh |
Founder | Naser Khader (NA), Anders Samuelsen (LA) |
Founded | |
Headquarters | Nybrogade 10 3.sal DK-1203 København K |
Youth wing | Liberal Alliance Youth |
Membership (2021) | 4,200[1] |
Ideology | Classical liberalism Right-libertarianism |
Political position | Centre-right to right-wing |
European affiliation | European People's Party Group (intention to join)[2] |
Nordic affiliation | Centre Group |
Council of Europe affiliation | ALDE-PACE |
Colours | |
Folketing | 15 / 179[d] |
European Parliament | 0 / 14 |
Regions[3] | 0 / 205 |
Municipalities[4] | 21 / 2,436 |
Election symbol | |
Website | |
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The Liberal Alliance (LA; Danish:
From November 2016 to June 2019, the Liberal Alliance (I) was part of the Lars Løkke Rasmussen III Cabinet a three-party coalition government, alongside Liberal Party (Danish: Venstre) and the Conservative People's Party (Danish: Det Konservative Folkeparti). At the 2022 Danish general election, the party won 14 seats. It has 15 seats after Pernille Vermund chose to join the party.
History
New Alliance (2007–2009)
The party was founded as the New Alliance (
On one occasion on 12 May 2007 in Horsens, the three leading figures of the party managed to collect over 2,000 signatures in one day.[13] On 21 May, the party reported they were half-way, having gathered in 10,000 signatures with the requirement being 19,185 (1/175 of the votes cast at the latest general election).[14] The party completed its nomination process on 29 June by being accepted on the Ministry of the Interior's list of parties eligible stand for election to the Folketing after handing in the 21,516 required signatures and was given the party letter Y.[15][16] Immediately after its creation, the New Alliance had a surge of members. Just one day after the announcement of the party, more than 12,000 had registered on the party website. Three days later, 16,000 had registered and 8,000 of these had paid the membership fee.[17]
On 30 August 2007, the party publicly launched a policy programme.
Rebranding and Samuelsen leadership (2008–2019)
On 29 January 2008, founding member Gitte Seeberg left the party in protest against the party's status as a right-wing party which conflicted with her own desire to form a centrist party with the goal of mitigating the influence of the Danish People's Party.[20] On 5 February 2008, Malou Aamund, another of the party's members of parliament, left the party and joined the governing party Venstre.[21] On 24 June 2008, Jørgen Poulsen was excluded from the Liberal Alliance's parliamentary group, although not from the party itself.[22] Under the new leadership of Anders Samuelsen, the party position moved towards the right, espousing economic liberalism and right-libertarian policies,[10] with the party changing its name to the Liberal Alliance on 27 August 2008.[23]
On 1 September 2008, the party regained a third mandate in the parliament as Gitte Seeberg was appointed secretary general of the Danish branch of the
In the
In the 2015 general election held on 18 June 2015, the party won 7.5% of the vote and 13 seats in the Folketing. In its most successful constituency, Gentofte Municipality, a well-off suburb of Copenhagen, it even scored 17.5% while on Bornholm its share of votes was only 4%. Initially, the party did not participate in Lars Løkke Rasmussen's Venstre minority cabinet, but it did lent its parliamentary support to the government.
Participation in third Løkke government
In late November 2016, it joined a three-party centre-right coalition government alongside Venstre and the Conservative People's Party in Løkke Rasmussen's third government. Party leader Anders Samuelsen was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs while Simon Emil Ammitzbøll-Bille took the post of Minister of the Economy and Interior. Additional cabinet members of Liberal Alliance were Merete Riisager (Minister of Education), Mette Bock (Minister of Culture), Ole Birk Olesen (Minister of Transport) and Thyra Frank (Minister for Elder Affairs).[32]
At the 2019 general election held on 5 June 2019, the party won 2.3% of the vote, losing 9 of its 13 seats in the Folketing.[33] At the same time, party leader Anders Samuelsen failed to get reelected,[34] leading him to resign the following day.[35]
Vanopslagh leadership (2019–present)
On 9 June 2019, Alex Vanopslagh became the new leader of the Liberal Alliance[36] with MP Simon Emil Ammitzbøll-Bille leaving the LA on 23 October attributing political disagreements as the reason.[37] At the 2021 local elections, LA achieved its first ever mayor with LA candidate Emil Blücher becoming mayor in Solrød Municipality.[38][39] During the election campaign to the 2022 general election, the party ran on a campaign called Du kan godt roughly translating to 'You can' or 'Yes, you can'.[40][41] Furthermore, Vanopslagh managed to acquire a large following on the social media platform TikTok especially engaging younger voters.[42][43][44][45] At that election, the party received its best ever result receiving 7.9% equal to 14 seats making it the joint fifth-largest party in the Folketing alongside the Denmark Democrats.[46] Following the formation of the SVM government, the LA is currently in opposition. On 17 January 2024, Pernille Vermund, the former leader of New Right, announced that she had joined the party.[47]
Ideology and platform
Located on the
The original New Alliance considered itself a
In 2011, the party opposed the government's entry of Denmark into the
The Liberal Alliance has supported the rights of
Organisation
Funding
The party received donations from the
Liberal Alliance Youth
On 23 February 2008, a
European parliament affiliations
At its formation, two MEPs joined the party. With the defection of
Leaders
The party has had the following leaders since its foundation:
No. | Portrait | Leader | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Ref. |
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1 | Naser Khader (born 1963) | 7 May 2007 | 5 January 2009 | 1 year, 243 days | [75] | |
2 | Anders Samuelsen (born 1967) | 5 January 2009 | 6 June 2019 | 10 years, 152 days | [76] | |
3 | Alex Vanopslagh (born 1991) | 9 June 2019 | Incumbent | 4 years, 317 days | [77] |
Election results
Parliament
Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/- | Government |
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2007[b] | 97,295 | 2.8 (#7) | 5 / 179
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5 | Opposition |
2011 | 176,585 | 5.0 (#7) | 9 / 179
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4 | Opposition |
2015 | 265,129 | 7.5 (#5) | 13 / 179
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4 | External support (2015–2016) |
Coalition (2016–2019) | |||||
2019 | 82,228 | 2.3 (#10) | 4 / 179
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9 | Opposition |
2022 | 278,656 | 7.9 (#6) | 14 / 179
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10 | Opposition |
Local elections
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European Parliament
Year | Group | Votes | % | Seats | +/- |
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2009 | 13,796 | 0.6 (#9) | 0 / 13
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New | |
2014 | 65,480 | 2.9 (#8) | 0 / 13
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0 | |
2019 | 60,693 | 2.2 (#10) | 0 / 14
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Former logos
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2011–2016
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2016–2019
See also
- Liberal Initiative (Portugal)
- List of political parties in Denmark
Notes
- ^ Official party letter on voting ballot
- ^ a b c as New Alliance
- ^ as Liberal Alliance
- ^ 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.
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