Conservatives point to Troels Lund Poulsen as new Prime Minister

It is still unknown whether the Liberal Party will go for a blue government after the election, but the Conservatives are pointing to him.

Since the 2022 general election, it has been unclear who the Blue Bloc’s candidate for prime minister is, but now the Conservatives are pointing to Minister of Defense Troels Lund Poulsen (V).

Berlingske writes this after internal disagreements in the blue bloc, as no party has officially announced itself as a candidate for prime minister.

“I have been working for a while to invite the Liberal Party in, and it is natural for me to point to Troels Lund Poulsen. As parties, we have always had a strong axis, we have been able to talk together, both when things have gone well and badly, and in a number of areas we are close to each other,” says chairwoman Mona Juul (K) to the newspaper.

She believes that the Liberal Party is needed, whose blue bloc must win the election, even though they are doing poorly in the opinion polls.

Troels Lund Poulsen has not officially announced himself as a candidate for prime minister, and thus Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) remains the only official one.

During the closing debate of the Folketing, Mette Frederiksen said that they have probably found a common melody in the blue bloc, but there is “apparently still no one who is willing to sing for it”.

The Social Democrats are in government with the Liberals and the Moderates, which is the first broad-based government above the center in several decades. Since the Liberals have pointed to a Social Democratic prime minister, the Liberals have in a sense simultaneously left the blue bloc, and this has left an unclear situation leading up to the next general election, which must be held no later than October 2026.

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Even though Troels Lund Poulsen is in government with the Social Democrats and has not explicitly said that he is in favor of a blue government, that does not stop the conservatives from pointing fingers at him.

“I want to be a bridge builder and have worked all my life to find connections between tasks and people. I hope to be able to help Troels Lund Poulsen make the right choice to join the blue family,” Mona Juul tells Berlingske.

In the latest opinion poll from Megafon for Politiken, the blue bloc – including the Liberal Party – has 46.4 percent of the vote, while the red bloc has 48.9 percent. The current SVM government has 38.2 percent, which is a drop of almost 12 percentage points since the election.

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