All the three presented enclosures are about the parliamentary election in 2011. Enclosure C1 is written by Rune Engelbrecht Larsen, enclosure C2 is written by Ida Auken and Astrid Krag (SF) and enclosure C3 is written by Bo Lidegaard.
What all the three enclosures has in common is, that they all have immigration policy in focus. According to the enclosures, it is therefore the immigration policy that determines the content of the value policy in this particular election. When the value policy is crucial, or not, for the election results, it regards the immigration policy.
In enclosure C1, Rune Engelbrecht arguments that the value policy is crucial for the election. He criticizes Villy Søvndal …show more content…
They argument that the red bloc lost many voters to the blue bloc during the week where the immigration policy was heavily debated. According to them, the population were clearly supporting the right-oriented opinion to the value policy, and the left-orientated opinion that the Social Liberals and the Red-Green Alliance stood for, didn’t win. Rune Engelbrecht is therefore wrong in his assessment of, what immigration policy “won”.
C2 disagrees with C1 in relation to what the voters’ opinions of the value policy are, but agrees with C1 that the value policy is crucial in the determination of the election. If S-SF had used the same policy as B and Ø, then VKO could have used it as a weapon in the election campaign, and the election could therefore had turned out a lot differently.
The view on the value policy in enclosure C3 is entirely different from the rest of the enclosures. Bo Lidegaard says that a drastic change happened in Venstre’s policy, when Lars Løkke took over as the new Prime Minister after Anders Fogh. Fogh won his election on a close partnership with Pia Kjærsgaard about a right turn on the value policy in order to win the middle voters. When Lars Løkke took over, he accepted this, but he never fully supported the value