Here, the Liberals will celebrate the party’s 150th anniversary and look forward to the local elections, which will really start when the election posters are hung up on 23 October.
In Ellemann’s speech, however, it is especially the message of more freedom for the Danes that fills. The National Assembly Hall is decorated with large blue and orange banners with the messages “More Freedom” and “More Options”. In the speech, the Liberal Party’s chairman gives a “promise of freedom”.
– A promise that we must have a society where the state decides less, and where the Danes decide more.
– When I become prime minister, a bourgeois government must be measured on whether Denmark becomes a more free society with more opportunities for all of us, says Jakob Ellemann-Jensen.
He points to very specific areas as free choice for the elderly to decide where they want food, cleaning and home help from. And the opportunity to choose a private maternity clinic.
But basically it is a “value struggle”, it sounds from Jakob Ellemann-Jensen. He appoints Mette Frederiksen’s S government as the main enemy.
– It is right here that we have one of the most important dividing lines in Danish politics. Do you want Mette Frederiksen’s unification and fewer opportunities, or do you want more freedom and more opportunities. I choose the latter, says Jakob Ellemann-Jensen.
He states in the speech that the state must not make the Danes the same, but make sure that everyone has opportunities so that they can choose the life they want.
– Whether we want to settle in the country or in the city. Whether we want to train as a truck mechanic or a lawyer. Whether we want to go to high school in Randers or Hobro. Whether we want to live in one or the other nursing home. The choice must be our own. Of course it should. People are not the same. And we must not be forced into the same box, says Jakob Ellemann-Jensen.
He states in the speech that the Liberal Party also wants to remove the set-off in the national pension if you still want to work.
The Liberal Party will also expand the government’s experiment with seven so-called free municipalities to the whole country. The free municipalities have increased freedom of state rules, so that the service to the citizens can be arranged locally.
Source: The Nordic Page