That is one of the conclusions in the book “Klimavalget”, which will be published on Thursday.
The book looks at the voter migrations between the parties in the period between the parliamentary elections in June 2015 and June 2019.
– It surprised me a little that the voters perceive the Liberal Party as more lenient in the area of foreigners, says professor and election researcher Kasper Møller Hansen from the University of Copenhagen, who is one of the book’s authors.
– Although I do not think that you will classify the Liberal Party as lenient in the area of foreigners, if you look at Støjberg’s 114 immigration restrictions, he says with reference to former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Integration Inger Støjberg.
After the parliamentary elections in both 2015 and 2019, a representative sample of voters was given the task of pointing out where they saw the parliamentary parties placed on a refugee policy scale from right to left.
From the answers, the election researchers could see, among other things, that the voters placed the Social Democrats further to the right in 2019 than they did in 2015.
In 2018, the party launched a foreign policy initiative that was seen as a move to the right in foreign policy.
However, the responses also showed that in 2019, voters placed the bourgeois parties, including the Left and the Conservatives, further to the left than they did in 2015.
In the eyes of the voters, the blue parties’ move to the left was thus greater than the move to the right that the Social Democrats made from 2015 to 2019.
In the election period from 2015 to 2019, first the V government and then the VLAK government, led by Inger Støjberg, otherwise implemented 114 tightenings of immigration policy.
Kasper Møller Hansen believes that the Social Democrats, by voting for proposals from the previous government, created a narrative that the party is a tighter party in the area of foreigners.
– The Social Democrats’ strategy has succeeded. They have managed to move their party, and in the process, they have pushed to the perception of where the other parties have moved to.
– The important thing is that the Social Democrats manage to put the issue to death.
– Voters did not navigate after the aliens issue this time (in 2019, ed.). They navigated by climate and Arne’s pension, he says.
Kasper Møller Hansen alludes to the fact that the voters at the last election were more concerned with climate and the proposal for a right to early retirement, which the Social Democrats launched in January 2019.
Source: The Nordic Page