New cabinet, and what have you....

Well, Prime Minister Løkke Rasmussens new cabinet was presented just short of a week ago, and what’s to say about this. Can he reclaim the power, i.e. win the next election? Probably. Wisely he shifted some heavyweights around internally in the cabinet (Mr. Stig Møller(K) & Mr. Haarder(V)) and disbanded some of the living zombies (Mr. Sander (V), Mr. Neergard(K), Ms. Christensen (K) & Ms. Tørnæs(V)) whom just hasn’t been ‘airborne’ so to speak for the last 6-8 months – if ever. More importently though he abandoned former Prime Minister Fogh Rasmussens policy agenda of ‘contract policy’ which meant specifying a number of tasks and then have those completed prior to the next election. Rather than this he listed some visions for Denmark whom he and the Cabinet will strive to achieve.

First point of order was to push the ball back on the oppositions part of the field by introducing a sound fiscal policy agenda, thus forcing R, S & SF to either concur on a fiscal policy alternative (not likely) or see the – up until now – relatively unified opposition get into a bloody fistfight over where to cut.

Likely as not the forthcoming election, not to be held no later than November 2011 is going to be the most decisive for Denmark in the past 10 years. If the current cabinet wins power once more, then Ms. Torning (S) party leader of the Social democrats and presumptive Prime Minister Candidate for the opposition has lost 3 in a row. This I assume she cannot survive politically. On the other hand if the current opposition does reclaim the power after some 8-10 years in opposition, what will happen with Ms. Kærsgaard. She is the founder, principle & party leader for the Danish Peoples Party (O) if she cannot gain controls of the power my thinking is she’ll want to retire, but that will crumble her party.

So basically there are to women who’s politically life are at stake at the next election; Mr. Thorning vs. Ms. Kærsgaard.
Currently I’m not sure who’s going to win.

PS. Liberal Alliance (Y) – a libertarian party – are launching a major push starting tomorrow with ads, explaining why to vote for them. This might shake things up a bit.