larholm at 2024-03-14 12:48:29+00:00 ID: kutsmd4

I do think people are mostly politically aware and know about developments within the different parties. We currently have 11 Danish political parties in Parliament, 2 parties from the Faroe Islands, 2 parties from Greenland and 6 unaffiliated individual members - totalling 179 Parliament members.

The biggest political awareness movement is, in my view, our electoral system and process. We vote in person at a broad range of local election offices that are all run by volunteers with involvement from members of all political parties.

There were a total of 1.383 election offices (valgsteder) in the 2021 elections with between 5 and 9 electoral officers at each place. Denmark is a small country, which means that our elections are locally and democratically anchored.

Cixila at 2024-03-14 14:04:08+00:00 ID: kuu3y0r

Our social studies class has a section reserved for running through how our political system is structured. We also have a minor awareness campaign (at least we did, when I turned 18), where people turning 18 (thus eligible to vote) will be sent some small brochures about our system and parties and a small copy of the constitution

We also have a smaller system than Poland: just one chamber in parliament and just one key figure, namely the Prime Minister (the monarch doesn't actually influence anything and just signs whatever they are told to). I tried getting into Polish politics leading up to the 2019 elections, but with little luck. The system with Sejm and Senate, PM and President, etc is more complex to figure out, and it doesn't help that my reading comprehension of Polish is low and anything on TV was just people I knew nothing of yelling horrible insults at other people I knew nothing of