Casualties
For the odd non-Danish reader: The 2009 European Parliament election has its first Danish casualty as the June Movement will be calling it a day after failing to get an MEP elected.
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Category: Politics | Tags: Denmark, Europe 2009 2 comments »
June 8th, 2009 at 15:01
And the same will probably happen to the younger Swedish equivalent ‘Junilistan’, although the top candidate (S�ren Wibe) along with the the party leader (Nils Lundgren) has not yet thrown in the sponge: link
June 8th, 2009 at 18:57
Not unlikely. Drude Dahlerup is blaming Jens-Peter Bonde for not (re)entering a formal cooperation with the People’s Movement.
http://www.berlingske.dk/article/20090608/epvalg/90608132/