Actually, the biggest revolution in the history of the Unity Party is the party’s revolution itself.

The Unity Party’s yes to also being a defense party is another step on the path to being a party of power, but still being itself, writes Elisabet Svane in this analysis.

Back in 2008-2009, a group of younger, then quite young, members of the Unity Party sat and looked at a party that in their eyes had become stagnant. The 2007 election had given 2.17 percent of the vote, the threshold was at the distance where it smells bad, SF had vacuumed the left wing of votes and was now on its way into the arms of the Social Democrats.

Now the time had come for the Unity Party to take the first baby steps towards becoming a real party. This seemed to be the group, which included future top politicians such as Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen, Pernille Skipper, Stine Brix and not least Pelle Dragsted, who was the party’s press officer at the time.