COPENHAGEN (DENMARK) – Denmark’s former prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen is set to form a new political party to bridge left and right wings with a “pragmatic and undogmatic” voice. This move could potentially affect the nation’s post-war political order.
“There will be a NEW party with the ambition to become a sensible, pragmatic and undogmatic voice in the political debate,” Rasmussen wrote in Danish tabloid BT on Sunday.
The move comes after Rasmussen, 56, in the lead-up to the 2019 general election campaigned to form a centre coalition government with the Social Democratic Party so as to evade more extremist political views on both wings, albeit without success.
He said he hopes his yet-to-be-named new party can “create momentum and change at a crossroads between the right wing that is tormented by value-based politics and the left wing that is stuck in an outdated view of the individual and the state.”
He said the aim will be to lower company taxes, ramp up the quality in the public welfare services, so that the lives of the weakest in our society can be improved.
Rasmussen served as prime minister from 2009 to 2011 and again from 2015 to 2019.