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If the Radicals get decisive mandates after the next general election, it must be exchanged for a place in the government. The party will not be a supporting party again.
This is the message from political leader Martin Lidegaard to Berlingske in connection with the party’s New Year’s convention.
“That is, unless something completely unpredictable happens that I can’t see through at all, but I don’t see that happening,” says Lidegaard to Berlingske.
Martin Lidegaard explains to Ritzau that he does not think that the party has good experience as a support party.
“I don’t think we had enough influence and couldn’t use our mandates enough”, he says about the period as a support party for the social democratic one-party government from 2019 to 2022.
“Why should we support a government we are not part of? We are a government-bearing party’.
“But of course it is also important for me to say that it is not at all costs. It’s because I want to come in and focus on the next generation – it’s obviously required,’ says Lidegaard.
For De Radikale to enter government, Lidegaard requires the party to get between five and ten percent of the vote at the next election.
He points out that the party had a ‘great decade’ in the 1990s, when De Radikale was in government on several occasions, even though the election result was between three and five percent.
“It is just as important how decisive the mandates are as how many there are of them. But the more you have, the greater the chance that they will be decisive’.
The Radicals, however, will neither point to a candidate for prime minister nor a preferred government constellation. It is only the Danish People’s Party and Lars Boje Mathiesen’s Citizens’ Party that Lidegaard cannot see cooperating with.
“I would like to have the free hands to be able to use our mandates as best as possible”.
In the latest opinion poll from Voxmeter, which was collected from 16 to 22 December, De Radikale has four percent of the vote.
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Source: politiken.dk
