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I shaked hands with the Danish prime minister the other day. And that was just after this picture was taken, back in Monday, when our prime minister decided to pay my school a visit.
He's out to tour around Denmark and check if people like him or not because he needs to know if this is a good time to call for election. For in Denmark that's the prime minister's job. He has to call an election every four years but may call it earlier. (I bet plenty of countries have rules similar to that but I'd just like to make sure everyone's with me.)
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Slagelse Gymnasium. Lots of people here, huh? This part of the school is dubbed "the cave". Probably a big share of the students are here now, but I actually don't think there'd be place for every single person working or studying there at once.
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In Sweden people are warming up for election which is coming in less than a month from now. Place is bustling with election campaigns and it's having its effect on Denmark too. Television is getting more and more into politics and I believe that the danish people are so too. Two of our biggest newspapers found another thing to fight about:
The husband of the leader of the Danish Social Democrats, Helle Thorning-Schmidt. Something to do with possible tax evasion that's being investigated currently. Should it show up that the party leader's husband, who is actually an Englishman, is found to be guilty in some offences, it might very well cost her the opportunity to become the countrys next prime minister and possibly her political career if there is a serious offence.
Of course there's newspapers interesting in scandalizing such a thing. It has already stricken a bit of a blow to the young peoples opinion to her party and political block I believe. I'm looking forward to see the final outcome of the case, whether it be one or the other it'll be interesting to see when people have put so many stakes on it.
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This guy from China brought a photo of the prime minister together with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
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He's not the one politician who's going to have my vote on the next election, but he does talk well. A shame he got so many lousy questions from unserious 1st graders and zealous left-wingers. That was really just a waste of time.
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I personally love the times of election. To me, politics seem really exciting. I'm not especially sure about who I'd put a vote on. I know a few parties that it's definetely not going to be, but I don't really have lots of trust for politicians. I do like to listen to what they say and follow them on television and occasionally check out what people are doing in town on political dog days. I also enjoy the tension of the climax to it all: The vote-counting and the overnight "race" between the blocks. Mind you: In Denmark the political right- and left-wing are very close right now. It couldn't be any closer. If the majority loses just one politician, they don't have majority anymore.
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I think this is generally the situation all over scandinavia, and also most other countries in the world seems to be moving more and more towards this kind of state.
It has probably something to do with political parties all over the world having more and more effects on one another. The right-wing is moving continuously faster in the left direction and vice versa as populations grow more politically interested and suddenly wanting some of every flavour.