Posted on 11/08/2017 8:47:00 AM PST by Olog-hai
Denmark’s nationalist Danish People’s Party (Dansk Folkeparti, DF) wants to change rules to prevent foreign citizens from running in municipal and regional elections.
Parliament will on Thursday open discussion of a proposal by the party to introduce rules requiring non-Danish citizens to pass an extended Danish language test before being approved to run in the elections, TV2 reported on Wednesday.
Opposition MPs and an international candidate in the 2017 regional elections have voiced their opposition to DF’s stance.
Martin Henriksen, immigration spokesperson with DF, told TV2 that his party would prefer Danish citizens only to run in the elections.
With no support for that position to be found amongst parliament’s other parties, DF is instead proposing stricter language requirements for prospective foreign candidates, he said. …
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That Party really should change its name.
My God, can’t they see that ‘foreigners’ will only press and vote for more and more welfare and drive the Danish state into fatal debt? Why can they not see this?
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