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Lars Løkke Rasmussen. Stock Photography.
Denmark’s former prime minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, leaves the country’s largest bourgeois party, Venstre, and goes politically savage.
“With the desire and courage to know the new world that we have before us, but of course also mixed with sadness, now in the New Year I decided to free myself and leave the Liberal Party after 40 years of membership,” he writes on Facebook.
The party has recently been rocked by a dispute, where Vice President Inger Støjberg resigned at the request of party leader Jakob Ellemann-Jensen.
“It has not been an easy decision. But it has matured over time, and the last few days have given me confidence in my case,” Rasmussen writes.
Rasmussen became party leader in 2009 and was forced to resign from the presidency in August 2019. During his political career, in addition to being Prime Minister (2009-2011, 2015-2019), he was also Minister of Finance (2007- 2009) and Minister of the Interior and Public Health (2001-19). 2007).
In the Facebook post, he writes that he keeps his seat at the Folketing and thus gets politically savage.
According to political commentator Hans Egnell, his message comes at a worrying time, to say the least, for the party’s chairman, Ellemann-Jensen.
– He faces neck-deep problems in connection with the Støjberg case, which is by no means over, and suddenly the person who attracted the most voters to the party in the last election resigns, Egnell tells Danish news agency Ritzau.
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