Det conservative folk party

Det conservative folk party
Party leader	Søren Pape Poulsen
Party leader	Søren Pape Poulsen
Group chairmanship in the Folketing	Søren Pape Poulsen
Political spokesman	May Mercado
Party secretary	Søren Vandsø
founding	1915
Alignment	Conservatism , economic liberalism
Headquarters	Copenhagen
Number of members	9,402 (2016)
Youth association	Conservative Ungdom
Electoral list	C.
Sit in the Folketing	13/179
International connections	IDU
MEPs	1/13
European party	EPP
EP Group	EPP
www.konservative.dk

Det Konservative Folkeparti ( K ), Danish for Conservative People's Party , is a political party in Denmark .

history

The Conservatives emerged from the parliamentary right ( Højre ) in 1915 . At that time the party mainly represented the interests of the bourgeoisie in the larger cities. The relationship with the right-wing liberal party Venstre alternated between partnership and competition. In the 1950s, on the initiative of the Venstre chairman Erik Eriksen, negotiations were held to merge the two parties, but this failed because of the conservatives. The original division of the bourgeois camp into a party of the urban bourgeoisie and a representation of agricultural interests lives on to this day in the distribution of the strongholds of both parties: The conservatives are particularly successful in Copenhagen , Frederiksberg and in the north-east of the island of Zealand , Venstre in the rural areas structured regions such as west and south Jutland . The conservative core electorate is mainly drawn from industry and trade, the self-employed, civil servants and parts of the middle class. The conservatives advocate a free market economy and a lean welfare state.

The party's share of the vote was around 20% before the 1973 landslide election, but dropped to around 5% after the appearance of Mogens Glistrup's populist progressive party . In addition to the Progress Party, to which many regular voters defected, it was above all home-made personal quarrels that brought the traditional party to the brink of existence. It was only after Poul Schlüter became chairman and also prime minister in 1982 that the party started to improve again, but after the end of his time as prime minister it steadily fell. In the 1990s there were renewed personal disputes, which led to a fall in voter favor in 1998. The previously rather unknown Bendt Bendtsen was able to temporarily regroup the party and lead it into government in 2001. From 2001 to 2011 she was involved in a minority government with the right-wing liberal Venstre with the tolerance of the national-conservative Danish People's Party .

Under Bendtsen's successor Lene Espersen , the old wing battles flared up again. In January 2011, Justice Minister Lars Barfoed became the new party chairman. In the 2011 parliamentary election campaign, the party tried to free itself from its firm ties to the right-wing populist majority procurers and called for a change in strategy by the bourgeois parties with the aim of seeking new majorities in the middle of the political spectrum in economic, tax and immigration policy. However, the electorate was also unsettled, so that in September 2011 the Conservatives had to accept the worst result in their long party history. You are currently the smallest political group in the Danish Parliament.

Positions

Climate policy

A study from 2019, which looked at the voting behavior of parties on climate policy issues in the EU Parliament, rated the conservatives as “dinosaurs” in relation to climate-friendly politics.

Folk elections

Since the introduction of proportional representation in 1918 (source: Folketingets Oplysning )

1918 18.3% 1920 (I) 19.6% 1920 (II) 18.8% 1920 (III) 17.9% 1924 18.9% 1926 20.6% 1929 16.5% 1932 18.7% 1935 17.9% 1939 17.7%

1943 21.0% 1945 18.2% 1947 12.8% 1950 17.8% 1953 (I) 17.3% 1953 (II) 16.8% 1957 16.6% 1960 17.9% 1964 20.1% 1966 18.7%

1968 20.4% 1971 16.7% 1973 9.2% 1975 5.5% 1977 8.5% 1979 12.5% 1981 14.5% 1984 23.4% 1987 20.8% 1988 19.3%

1990 16.0% 1994 15.0% 1998 8.9% 2001 9.1% 2005 10.3% 2007 10.4% 2011 4.9% 2015 3.4% 2019 6.6%

Party leadership

Political leaders elected by the parliamentary group John Christmas Møller 1928-1947 Ole Bjørn Kraft 1947–1955 Aksel Møller 1955-1958 Poul Sørensen 1958-1969 Poul Møller 1969-1971 Erik Ninn-Hansen 1971–1974 Poul Schlueter 1974-1993 Henning Dyremose 1993 Hans Engell 1993-1997 Per Stig Møller 1997-1998 Pia Christmas-Møller 1998-1999 Bendt Bendtsen 1999-2008 Lene Espersen 2008-2011 Lars Barfoed 2011-2014 Søren Pape Poulsen since 2014

Chair elected by the party congress Emil Piper 1916-1928 Charles Tvede 1928-1932 John Christmas Møller 1932-1939 Vilhelm Fibiger 1939–1948 Halfdan Hendriksen 1948–1957 Einar Foss 1957-1965 Knud Thestrup 1965–1972 Erik Haunstrup Clemmensen 1972–1974 Poul Schlüter 1974–1977 Ib Stetter 1977-1981 Poul Schlueter 1981-1993 Torben Rechendorff 1993-1995 Hans Engell 1995-1997 Per Stig Møller 1997-1998 Poul Andreassen 1998-2000 Bendt Bendtsen 2000-2008 Lene Espersen 2008-2011 Lars Barfoed 2011-2014 Søren Pape Poulsen since 2014

See also

• conservatism

literature

• Alexander Horn: The political system of Denmark. Politics, economy and the welfare state in a comparative perspective , Wiesbaden 2019.

Web links

• Det Conservative Folkeparti Official Website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Membership figures 2016 Folketingets Oplysning, accessed on October 28, 2018.
2. ^ ^{A b} Alexander Horn: The political system of Denmark. Politics, the economy and the welfare state in a comparative perspective , Wiesbaden 2019, p. 43.
3. ↑ http://www.caneurope.org/docman/climate-energy-targets/3476-defenders-delayers-dinosaurs-ranking-of-eu-political-groups-and-national-parties-on-climate-change/file