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What are the ideological differences between the centre-right political parties? (leddit.danmark.party)

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What are the ideological differences between the centre-right (Venstre, Conservatives, Liberal Alliance, Moderates) political parties? Is there a difference between the kinds of people they each attract? I guess Venstre voters tend be more rural, while Conservatives tend to be more urban, for example, right?

Is it possible that they ever merge into one centre-right party or are there too much differences between these parties? Which parties of these 4 is the least and most pro-EU?

(I know Moderates are not officially part of the right-wing bloc, but they seem to lean to the right ideologically, that's why I included them).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

JustBecauseOfThat at 2024-02-03 14:24:12+00:00 ID: kor3mxv

Is it possible that they ever merge into one centre-right party or are there too much differences between these parties?

Just to comment specifically on this. That will never happen, but not because of major differences between them. It is because of the Danish election system.

In the US and UK the election system favours large parties. Often each district/county/state gets to send one representative to the parliament/senate/congress. So the largest party in each district gets that mandate and all the small parties get 0 mandates. If a right-wing party in a district gets 40 % and two left-wing parties each get 30 %, the right-wing party will win the mandate despite more people voting left-wing! In such an election system it makes sense for small parties to merge with somewhat similar parties, so they can together compete for the mandate.

The Danish system is not like that. If four small parties each get 5 % of the vote, they together get the same amount of mandates as one big party getting 20 %. So there is no benefit in merging. In fact, there is a benefit in not merging. Imagine that a right-wing voter really dislikes the leader of the right-wing party. If there was only one right-wing party this voter would either not vote or vote on the left-wing party. But if there are other right-wing parties he will just vote on one of those. So it is good for the right-wing to have several alternatives, so that they can together attract more voters.

Only if a party falls under 2 % will it not get into parliament. It is only when a party gets close to that limit that they start considering merging.

Right now we do have extraordinary many of these centre-right parties. Thats because Venstre recently broke into three parties. It is not unlikely that one or two of these parties will not survive in the long run. But they will never merge into one big party altogether. This is despite the US-republicans and the UK-conservaties being much more divided internally than these Danish parties are from each other.