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Shake-up: Out with the new, in with the old
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HE GOVERNMENT performed its largest shake-up since last year’s election and replaced two of its ministers on Tuesday morning. The reshuffle was widely anticipated after Villy Søvndal stepped down as leader of Socialistisk Folkeparti (SF) in September and a five-week election campaign was carried out to find his replacement. Søvndal’s departure as leader was seen as a reflection of dissatisfaction in SF’s heartland following a precipitous drop in confidence by voters follow-
ing the election. SF polled at about 20 percent amongst voters three years ago, against about six percent today. 51-year-old Annette Vilhelmsen, a relative political novice who was elected to parliament last year after her third attempt, won a landslide victory over Astrid Krag on Saturday to become the new party leader. With almost 20 years experience in education, Vilhelmsen’s defeat of 29-year-old Krag – a career politician with little professional experience – demonstrated a will by SF members to return to more traditional roots. Among Vilhelmsen’s first decisions were appointing herself as the new business and growth minister in place of the recently-resigned Ole Sohn and firing Thor Möger Pedersen as the tax minister. Pedersen has been replaced by Holger K Nielsen, an MP for SF between 1981
and 2005 (bar three years) and the party’s leader from 1991-2005. The 26-year-old Pedersen was given a ministerial post despite failing to get elected in the last election. He was, however, a key strategist who over the past five years helped turn SF from a ‘protest party’ into a party with ambitions for power. His efforts helped SF assume a position in government for the first time ever last year after it entered into an election coalition with the Socialdemokraterne (S). It may then seem ungrateful to dismiss Pedersen from his post as tax minister after only a year holding the position. But clearly Vilhelmsen was looking for different qualities from one of SF’s key ministers in a three-party cabinet that spans the policial spectrum from the centre to the left. And if anyone can argue SF’s case, it
is Nielsen. Throughout his long career he served as the party’s spokesperson on defence, foreign affairs and media and also occupied powerful positions, including a stint on parliament’s executive committee. Reports now suggest that Nielsen will be expected to extend his influence as member of the government’s powerful co-ordination committee that, under PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s (S) leadership, has the final say on the political line taken by the government. Whether the new SF ministers will end up moving the government further to the left remains to be seen. Two days of talks between Vilhelmsen and Thorning-Schmidt seemed to establish that SF would not challenge the pre-election policy agreement with S. And, of course,
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