After the most recent local elections in 2017, the Social Democrats won 47 mayoral posts and thus the most.
The Social Democrats’ party secretary, Lasse Ryberg, states that the governing party won an “extraordinarily good election” in 2017.
– We went forward, and we got not least many new mayors. This is probably not the most likely scenario that we can repeat. But we will do everything we can to keep as many mayoral posts as possible, win the four big cities and most importantly: Again become Denmark’s largest municipal and regional party, he says in a written comment.
For the Liberal Party, everything points to a decline after the crisis of the last few years, including a change of chairman, goodbye to a number of profiles and sluggish opinion polls.
That picture is confirmed by a number of elected Left people with whom Ritzau has spoken. Maybe that’s why chairman Jakob Ellemann-Jensen (V) keeps the goal a secret from the public.
– I know that it will be difficult, Ellemann-Jensen said, among other things, in connection with the Liberal Party’s national meeting earlier in October.
In the most recent local elections, it ended with 37 mayoral posts for the Liberal Party. Only surpassed by the Social Democrats.
One party that is officially preparing for decline is the Danish People’s Party, where there has also been a crisis in recent years. How bad it’s going to go, no one knows. Nor does chairman Kristian Thulesen Dahl (DF).
– We have a realistic approach. We’ll be going back. The question is how much. Our goal is that we continue to be a nationwide party in relation to having city council members around most of the country, says Thulesen Dahl, who does not want to reveal a possible pain threshold, or whether the party hopes for a mayoral post despite the crisis.
After the 2017 election, DF got Karsten Nielsen as mayor of Læsø. He has since switched to the Liberal Party.
Even with the Conservatives, who must be described as the third major mayoral party after the Social Democrats and the Liberals, it is not possible to elicit a concrete goal.
Right now, the Conservatives have eight mayoral posts. They must be defended, and more must be conquered, it sounds, however. The Conservatives are running for a double-digit number of mayoral posts.
In addition, the Conservatives must have mayoral posts west of the Great Belt. That is not the case today.
SF also sees progress. This is what Vice President Lise Müller says. The party got the mayoral post on Langeland after the 2017 election, but the party is betting on more this time. How many are not revealed.
– We are looking for significant progress, and I believe that our great parliamentary elections (in 2019, ed.) And the good opinion polls we have seen in recent times, can be exchanged for many more SFs in city councils across the country .
– We have a goal that we should have more mayoral posts, and we have seen some places where it can be done if everything goes as it should. So at least a doubling, says Müller.
In addition to holding on to the mayoral post on Langeland, SF sees Kolding, Hvidovre, Syddjurs, Lyngby, Vesthimmerland, Esbjerg and Lejre as possible mayoral municipalities for the party. In Kolding, it is also former chairman and foreign minister Villy Søvndal who is the party’s leading candidate.
At the Radicals, a number of infringement cases have thrown the party into crisis in the past year. Therefore, the expectations are then, it sounds. For example, it is not certain that the mayoral post in Rebild Municipality can be conquered for the third time.
In general, the Radicals hope to achieve a national vote share of the order of four percent.
The alternative was given to Sofie Valbjørn as mayor of Fanø after the recent election. But since then, the Alternative has crumbled, Valbjørn is not running again, and the party is just hoping for as good an election as possible.
For some parties, this does not apply to mayoral posts at all. New Citizens, for example, is looking for at least ten city council members in total.
Source: The Nordic Page