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The
Minority Party is former a
Danish political party that didn't gain parliamentary representation.
History
The Minority Party is a Danish political party which was founded in 2000 by a group of
minority groups. One of the party's primus motors were
Rune Engelbreht Larsen, who was chairman of the party during the
2005 parliamentary election. Engelbreht Larsen was formerly known as editor of the intellectual left-wing dissident magazine
Faklen (The Torch).
During the 2005 election campaign, the Minority Party opposed the consensus among most Danish parties to further tighten
immigration controls. The chairman of the party, Rune Engelbreht Larsen, went so far as to call the chairman of the
nationalist Danish People's Party a
racist.
In the 2005 election, the Minority Party only got 0.3 percent of the votes and didn't achieve parliamentary representation. Many saw this as a result of the offensive and confrontational way the party dealt with the
Danish People's Party, but mostly that they failed to indicate what they wanted to change or influence in Danish politics. The party didn't seek representation in the
2007 election and was formally dissolved by the end of 2007.
Ideology
The party identified itself as
humanist and officially rejected both
socialism and
liberalism. Among its stated goals were
social justice and the freedom to be different, to be achieved through economic and humanitarian support for groups considered marginalised (such as the unemployed and immigrants) and embracement of
multiculturalism. It specifically didn't consider itself a "homeless" or "immigrant" party, but rather a party emphasizing common human dignity.
Socialism was denounced on the grounds that it's potentially
totalitarian and suppressive of the diversity of which the party proclaims itself supportive; it considers the notion of a great, suppressed
working class archaic. Rather, the perceived vulnerable parts of society are different from those of the 19th century. Liberalism is rejected by the party, stating that the accompanying freedoms are based around money and greed as opposed to human decency. The party strongly criticized
populism and what it perceived as the political right's throwing suspicion on immigrants.
Key issues
- Guaranteed minimum income — a social benefit for all citizens. The basic income should match to the expenditures of a modest living standard.
- Relaxation of the immigration laws, especially the repeal of the "24-year rule", that makes it impossible for Danish citizens under 24 years to get foreign spouses to Denmark.
- Resistance to the Danish membership of the European Union.
- Resistance to the activation of the unemployed.
- Strengthening of the citizens' legal status against the authorities.
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