Minority Party (Denmark)
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The Minority Party (Danish: Minoritetspartiet) is a Danish political party without parliamentary representation.
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[edit] History
The Minority Party (Minoritetspartiet) is a Danish political party which was founded in 2000 by a group of minority groups. One of the party's primus motors were Mr. Rune Engelbreht Larsen, who was chairman of the party during the 2005 general elections. Rune Engelbreht Larsen was formerly known as editor of the intellectual left-wing dissident magazine Faklen (The Torch).
During the 2005 election campaign, the Minority Party was in opposition to the consensus among most Danish parties to further tighten immigration controls. The chairman of the party, Rune Engelbreht Larsen, went so far as to call the chairman of the nationalist Danish People's Party a racist.
In the 2005 parliamentary elections, the Minority Party only got 0.3 percent of the votes and did not achieve parliamentary representation.
[edit] Ideology
The party identifies itself as humanist and officially rejects both socialism and liberalism. Among its stated goals are social justice and the freedom to be different, to be achieved through economic and humanitarian support for groups considered marginalised (such as the unemployed and immigrants) and embracement of multiculturalism. It specifically does not consider itself a "homeless" or "immigrant" party, but rather a party emphasizing common human dignity.
Socialism is denounced on the grounds that it is potentially totalitarian and suppressive of the diversity of which the party proclaims itself supportive; it considers the notion of a great, suppressed working class archaic. Rather, the perceived vulnerable parts of society are different from those of the 19th century. Liberalism is rejected by the party, stating that the accompanying freedoms are based around money and greed as opposed to human decency. The party strongly criticizes populism and what it perceives as the political right's throwing suspicion on immigrants.
[edit] Key issues
- Guaranteed minimum income — a social benefit for all citizens. The basic income should match to the expenditures of a modest living standard.
- Relaxation of the immigration laws, especially the repeal of the "24-year rule", that makes it impossible for Danish citizens under 24 years to get foreign spouses to Denmark.
- Resistance to the Danish membership of the European Union.
- Resistance to the activation of the unemployed.
- Strengthening of the citizens' legal status against the authorities.
