Danes’ Minority Govt. Smaller
t'I.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) COPENHAGEN, November 23.
Denmark’s Social Democrat minority Government lost seven of its 76 seats in a swing to the Left in today’s “income tax” General Election.
But the People’s Socialist Party doubled its representation to 20 in the 179-seat Folketing (Parliament) and will support the Social Democrats’ plan to introduce pay-!as-you-earn income tax. | The Prime Minister, Mr Jens Otto Krag, in a television .interview after the results were announced, said the minority Government would continue in office under his leadership. Mr Krag called the election to get backing for the introduction of a pay-as-you-earn income tax system. The Radicals, centre-of-the-
road pacifists, are expected to have 13 seats, compared with 10 in the old House, Conservatives 34 (36), Agrarian Liberals 35 (36), and the LiberalCentre Party four (two), while the Right-wing Independents are thought to have lost all five seats they held.
The remaining four places in the 179-seat Assembly are reserved for the Faroe Islands and Greenland, where elections will be held next month.
Mr Krag’s Social Democrats became a minority Government recently when the Radicals withdrew from their nine-year-old coalition.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31225, 24 November 1966, Page 17
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