While a number of north-west Jutland mayors from the Left - in Viborg, Thisted, Skive, Lemvig and Ringkøbing-Skjern - have announced that they will not stand again, it is different further south. Here is Esbjerg's mayor, Jesper Frost Rasmussen (V), now as the last left-wing mayor in Southern Denmark re-elected as a mayoral candidate for another term.
- I think it is an absolutely fantastic job, and I hope I will be allowed to continue in it after the upcoming election. I don't feel at all that I have finished my work, he says to Judean West Coast.
Jesper Frost Rasmussen is 49 years old and starting his second term as mayor. Venstre has held the post of mayor in the municipality since the municipal reform.
In Kerteminde, the Liberal Party has re-elected Jens Gantriis as candidate for mayor, writes Kjerteminde Avis. Here, however, the party is somewhat smaller than in Esbjerg: Gantriis is the party's only city council member, after Bettina Eriksen, who won the second of the party's two mandates after KV21, switched to the Liberal Alliance last year.
In Vordingborg, the Liberal Alliance has chosen the 63-year-old businessman Jakob Helles as the leading candidate, writes Vordingborg.in. He moved back to Præstø, where he grew up, 12 years ago, after a career as, among other things, Group CEO. The party did not run in Vordingborg at KV21.
In Viborg the newly founded party Welfare Democrats is running for the first time. The party was founded by the four city council members who left the Social Democratic Party this summer after internal unrest in the party, and all four have chosen to stand again, informs the party.
It has not been announced who will be the leading candidate, but a good bet is group chairman Mette Nielsen, who previously ran for Social Democratic mayoral candidate. This summer, a general meeting of the troubled social democratic party association decided that she could not stand again at KV25, and that was the reason why the four left the party and founded a new one.
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