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The nature of this list must be defined.

'Save the Bears' is mentionned. The party is widely unkown in Denmark, as it is a local phenomenon in Holbæk municipality, where it ran for the October 15, 2005 Danish Municipality Reform 2007, elections, but only got 59 votes.

I think it would be better to only include nation wide parties on this page, and make another page for local lists in Demnark - of which there are many.

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[edit] Minority Party

Read my comment on Talk:Minority Party (Denmark) Medico80 11:17, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Red-Green Alliance

I want to keep the constitutent parties of the Red-Green Alliance on this page. Before I organized it this way they were mentioned under "Minor parties (nationwide, but not running for parliamentary elections)" or "Defunct parties" without any mention of the relationship between these parties and the Enhedslisten, and that members of those parties hold seats in parliament. This way the relationship is explained better. C mon 14:21, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

The problem with this arguments is that the constituent parties of the RGA do not have any influence over the RGA anymore, and it is thus factual incorrect to describe the RGA as an alliannce between these parties. The RGA has developped from being an electoral alliance to now being a proper party. Some of the parties (SAP and DKP) does still exist and have som activity. The others are either defunct (KAP) or has transformed itself into an association (VS). Bertilvidet 14:45, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
I'll settle for the way it is currently organized. C mon 15:16, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

hmmm D, J, K, M, and M, are not in the Folketing, so are the like supposed be in this... ting/artikel/list???

[edit] Merging

I am in process of merging, please refrain from editing.Angelbo Talk / Contribs 09:00, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Merge is completed, not musch to add, most of the stuff is in the specific party articles. -Angelbo Talk / Contribs 09:09, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Khader / New Alliance status in Parliament

I'm moving the following unsourced material from the article as it looks to me like a personal analysis. It concerns the new political party, New Alliance.

Not technically represented in the Folketing, but the leaders of the party, who left other parties, are members of the Folketing, albeit written as unafiliated, until the party is elected.

I would very much like to see a reference that supports this interpretation. The party is not yet cleared by the Ministry of the Interior to actually stand for parliament, but this is a detail since the Ministry's task is simply to verify if 20,000 Danes have stated that they wish the party should run (not yet the case), and secondly that the party name doesn't present any problems. But the constitution of Denmark doesn't even mention political parties, on the contrary, § 56 states: Folketingsmedlemmerne er ene bundet ved deres overbevisning og ikke ved nogen forskrift af deres vælgere. (Members of the Folketing are bound only by their own conviction and not by any instruction from their voters.) so as I see it, Naser Khader can state that he represents whoever he wishes, and I presume that the same must apply for Samuelsen and Seeberg in the European Parliament. Khader would have a problem if an election was called tomorrow as he hasn't got the formalities in place yet, but it appears that all Danish parties recognize the existence of the new party, including its name, and the media will continue to identify him as the chairman of New Alliance. Labelling him unaffiliated with any party seems overly stringent and legalistic to me, it will confuse readers, and Parliament can't make any house rules overruling the Constitution. When the Progress Party splintered, Freedom 2000 was also referred to anywhere on par with the other parties, including in official documents, even if its name was never cleared with the Ministry of the Interior. That's my two cents anyway. Valentinian T / C 16:47, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, that is, as far as I can tell, how it is, right now. NA is not yet recognised as a party, and not elected into the parlament. Officially, Khader is not affiliated with any party in the Folketing. I stand by the paragraf. Even if it is a simplification, it is as precise as you can get, without getting into details. Lordz 19:44, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
The official website of Parliament disagrees with that definition [1], see the examples of Frank Dahlgaard, Hans Jørgen Iversen, Anne Grete Holmsgaard and the former members of Frihed 2000. They are only listed as "løsgængere" when they personally stated that they didn't belong to any political party. In addition, I've never heard anybody refer to the members of the Radikale Venstre as "løsgængere" between the founding of that party and the first election. I don't recall people referring to Pia Kjærsgaard as a "løsgænger" either when she split the Progress Party in two. Valentinian T / C 09:24, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
You know what, I prefer my original statement, but for all intents and purposes, Khader does represent NA. My original statement was correct, but I can hear that you are not about to give up on your even more simplified version. Lordz 10:42, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
You simply didn't cite any sources to back up your definition, nor sources to back up why this situation should be different from the Freedom 2000 case. Did you notice that official minutes from sessions in Folketinget referred to Freedom 2000 by that name? If they were listed in Folketingstidende by the name they gave themselves, surely the same applies here. If you have any sources to back up your version up, I'd be interested to see them. Otherwise I'll stick with my interpretation based on the list compiled by www.folketinget.dk, and the constitution's § 56. Khader was unaffiliated for around three hours, but such a brief time span is irrelevant in an encyclopedia. Valentinian T / C 18:25, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Parties represented in the Folketing section

Can someone explain the letters in front of the party names, as in their usage in the Danish electoral system? Thanks. --Free Socialist 21:34, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Good question, even I find these letters very curious... --Checco (talk) 12:56, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
The letters determine in which order parties are listed on the ballots. If some of them seem not to relate to the party name at all, that is partially because, at least according to Danish wikipedia, they were originally assigned according to how many seats the party had in the municipal council for Copenhagen municipality (the letters were introduced for municipal elections in the 1930s and parliamentary elections in the 1940s), and partially because new parties only have so many available letters to choose from. Hemmingsen 07:21, 29 March 2008 (UTC)