Danish People’s Party add new seat, score nearly half million votes
The Danish People’s Party (Dansk Folkeparti, DF) solidified its electoral position in national elections held on November 13, 2007, adding an additional seat to make a total of 25 in the Folketing parliament.
478,638 Danes voted for the nationalists, whose 13.8% of the overall vote makes the Danish People’s Party the third largest political party in Denmark, behind only the ruling conservatives and opposition Social Democrats. The DF will help form a coalition government led by prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
The Danish People’s Party has built on a long campaign to make the nationalist message relevant to the growing numbers of Danes concerned about three decades of Third World immigration. The threat was crystallized in the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy of 2005, which woke millions of Danes up to the fact that they had a militant Islamist presence in their midst, part of a Third World crisis that threatens not only Denmark’s liberal values but also the nation’s ultimate existence.The exciting 2007 poll results were probably aided by news that Muslim politician Naser http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2358 would galvanize the Muslim vote to make himself “kingmaker” of any new coalition government. Despite the much ballyhooed threat of Khader, his New Alliance party scored a mere five Folketing seats, and increased turnout gave them a vote share of only 2.8%.
The Danish People’s Party have managed to pull off two major successes by modernizing their approach and appeal: by entering government they have heavily impacted Danish immigration policy; while not perfect by a long shot, Denmark now has one of the toughest immigration systems in Europe. The second achievement of the DF is the fact that, like the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=699 in Flanders, BNP in the United Kingdom, the Swiss People’s Party and similar organizations elsewhere in Europe, the Danes have taken nationalism out of the political ghetto and, more importantly, made nationalist ideas acceptable to ordinary people. Added to this is the fact that many people with positions in the system itself, from police and civil servants to religious figures, lawyers, businesspeople and teachers, feel comfortable aligning themselves with a nationalism that is serious and results oriented.
Across Europe, political correctness is increasingly being seen by normal people as crazy. The politically correct have long depended on nationalist self-sabotage, and the growing tendency of European nationalists to break out of “fringe” thinking has exposed the far left and their cheerleaders as the real http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1751 in October, a move which only strengthened DF support at the 2007 polls. In 2005, Rikke Hvilshøj, the Minister for Refugees, Immigrants and Integration in the Danish coalition government, had her car and part of her home burned by a pro-immigration “Borderless Action Group.” Hvilshøj and her family escaped with their lives.
Despite what the politically correct may say or do, nationalism is established as a legitimate political vision in Denmark, and will only grow as the Third World crisis deepens across the West.