June 18, 2015
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danes are voting in parliamentary elections that will determine whether the center-left government of Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt can continue or whether the center-right opposition will be back at the helm.
Both Thorning-Schmidt's Social Democrats and opposition leader Lars Loekke Rasmussen's Liberals depend on other parties to build a majority in the 179-seat Folketing, or Parliament. Ahead of Thursday's vote, polls show them neck and neck, with their campaigns focusing on the impact of immigration on the welfare system, among other issues. Both sides have promised to further tighten Denmark's controls on immigration.
In a voting day poll in the Politiken newspaper and on the TV2 channel, the government side would get 49.1 percent and the opposition 50.1 percent. Pollster Megafon said some 1,800 interviews were carried out Wednesday and the margin of error was 3 percentage points.
Loekke Rasmussen, a former prime minister, needs support from the populist Danish People's Party that wants border controls back to stop foreign criminals from entering the country. Some 4.1 million Danes are eligible on Thursday and can pick among 10 parties and 799 candidates, including 16 independents. The vote will elect 175 lawmakers in Denmark, two in the Faeroe Islands and two in Greenland, which are semi-autonomous Danish territories.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danes are voting in parliamentary elections that will determine whether the center-left government of Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt can continue or whether the center-right opposition will be back at the helm.
Both Thorning-Schmidt's Social Democrats and opposition leader Lars Loekke Rasmussen's Liberals depend on other parties to build a majority in the 179-seat Folketing, or Parliament. Ahead of Thursday's vote, polls show them neck and neck, with their campaigns focusing on the impact of immigration on the welfare system, among other issues. Both sides have promised to further tighten Denmark's controls on immigration.
In a voting day poll in the Politiken newspaper and on the TV2 channel, the government side would get 49.1 percent and the opposition 50.1 percent. Pollster Megafon said some 1,800 interviews were carried out Wednesday and the margin of error was 3 percentage points.
Loekke Rasmussen, a former prime minister, needs support from the populist Danish People's Party that wants border controls back to stop foreign criminals from entering the country. Some 4.1 million Danes are eligible on Thursday and can pick among 10 parties and 799 candidates, including 16 independents. The vote will elect 175 lawmakers in Denmark, two in the Faeroe Islands and two in Greenland, which are semi-autonomous Danish territories.
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