According to Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the party will be founded after the local elections.
– I often get inquiries from people who want to get involved in the local elections for this party. But it will not be serious to stand and participate in the municipal elections in a few months, he says.
– That is why the Moderates are only founded after the local elections. At least that’s plan A.
The local elections will be held in November. Yet he is already baptizing his new party on Constitution Day in June.
– Conversely, you have to be prepared. And we must not get caught up in the wrong leg if there is a sudden parliamentary election, he says, thus announcing that his party will be ready for an election in the autumn if it should come.
Political commentator at Berlingske Bent Winther assesses that Lars Løkke Rasmussen did not want to take even the slightest risk.
– The process of getting a name approved is more difficult than you think, says Bent Winther.
– The board set up to approve party names meets only a number of times a year.
– You can not speed up that process. So he can get caught in that he does not get the name approved, and then suddenly Mette Frederiksen prints elections, and then he does not manage to stand. So I think he has to take that step now.
– There is a risk of choice – one can discuss how big it is – but only that it is there and that he knows not to act in time may have to wait four more years. So I think he’s wearing a belt and harness.
From the morning of Constitution Day, the Liberal Party’s chairman Jakob Ellemann-Jensen had reiterated his wishes for reforms that will increase the amount of labor in the Danish labor market.
Previously, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has also presented plans for major reforms that will strengthen the Danish economy in the future.
Precisely the growing talk at Christiansborg about the need for reforms may have increased the risk for Lars Løkke Rasmussen by waiting, Bent Winther estimates.
– I think that with the program that Mette Frederiksen has presented, which is very large and ambitious, she would like to have that opportunity hanging in the air, he says.
At the same time, the growing interest in major reforms that may be adopted across opposition and government may put pressure on Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s new party on its raison d’être, according to Bent Winther.
– If the Liberal Party and the Social Democrats agree on some of these reforms, and the Radicals will also define themselves as more of a reform party, then the position that is Løkke’s position will be more and more occupied by others as well, he says.
In the first instance, the name Moderaterne must be approved by the Election Board before Lars Løkke Rasmussen can go in search of the 20,182 voter declarations that it requires to get on the ballot paper.
Source: The Nordic Page