Denmarks Center-Left Social Democrats Expected To Win After Adopting Tough Stance On Immigration

(Daily Mail) Miranda Aldersley 5 June 2019 04:42 Denmark goes to the polls in a general election today with the centre-left Social Democrats predicted to win after adopting the right wings long-standing tough stance on immigration. Opinion polls put the party led by Mette Frederiksen at 27.2 a comfortable lead of almost 10 percentage points ahead of Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussens ruling Liberal Party which has been in power for 14 of the last 18 years. The polls also indicate that the far-right Danish Peoples Party which has informally supported Rasmussens minority government could lose almost half its support shrinking to 10.7. For the last two decades the anti-immigrant party has supported successive right-wing governments in exchange for the implementation of their restrictive immigration policies. But as those policies have now been broadly adopted by almost all Danish parties the Danish Peoples Party has lost its unique appeal with voters.