Posted on 02/08/2005 11:25:11 PM PST by wardaddy
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's center-right Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen won a second term on Tuesday on the back of a popular crackdown on asylum-seekers and cuts in sky-high taxes, final results showed.
Rasmussen's Liberal-Conservative coalition and their allies, who came to power in 2001, won 54 percent of the four million votes compared with 46 percent for the center-left opposition.
"The political shift which began in 2001 is reaffirmed. The Social Democrats and left wing have lost further and a stronger government can continue its work," said Rasmussen, the first Liberal prime minister ever to be re-elected.
The 52-year-old prime minister called a snap election three weeks ago to capitalize on what he termed a "fairy tale" economic and social scenario.
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Meanwhile at home...we snooze.
So9
Amen.
Marijuana is not legal in Denmark. They do tolerate small sales a bit but closed the Christiana market.
The Danes have always been a good ally. Great cheese, too.
Even though there are parts of Western Europe where particular vices, e.g. narcotics, sexual favors, etc., are condoned-to a certain extent-by law enforcement, that does not mean that soliciting the activity in question is, in fact, sanctioned by each nation's respective municipalities.
Indeed. One lives in the hope Americans will come to their senses and vote to elect our own hardliners.
America may nominate hardliners but they can't get elected.
not yet....but it's coming cause the moon rock nazis aren't stopping and neither is El Departmento Norte.
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