Danes are disenchanted

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33478, 8 March 1974, Page 11

Danes are disenchanted

1 (N.Z .P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) COPENHAGEN, March 7. Denmark’s main political parties have emerged from [the local council elections as the victims of disenchanted ! voters, who voted for a string of minority Right and Left-wing groups. The leaders of the main parties, however, have expressed satisfaction with the ! results, some saying that they were not as bad as they had expected. voting to elect local councils in 14 shires, 277 municipalities, and the neighbouring cities of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg dealt set backs to most of the established (Parties. j The voting pattern resembled that of the Parliamentary elections in December, in which a wave of protest against high taxes and Government bureaucracy doubled the number of parties represented in the Folket ing (Parliament) to 10. i As in December, smaller parties on both the far Left and Right registered gains, chief among them being the I Progress Party, which won .15.9 per cent of the vote in 'its first election last December on a pledg® to abolish I income taxes and red tape