RINGKØBING-SKJERN: SF's lead candidate and long-time member of the city council Niels Rasmussen is now joining the fight for the mayoral race. He believes that the culture at the city hall needs to change, he tells DR.
- I have discussed this with many people and have recognized that if we are to have the opportunity to fulfill one of our key issues, honesty and transparency in the political decision-making process, we will have to go after the mayor's post, says Niels Rasmussen, who has been in municipal politics for 36 years and turns 69 a week before the municipal elections.
- I am not running from my age, but I also do not see it as an obstacle to getting SF a mayor's post here in West Jutland, he says.
SF has three mandates in the current city council, while current mayor Hans Østergaard's party Venstre has 11.
Fight for chain
Hans Østergaard is not running again, and the party's new lead candidate Lone Andersen, who is not on the city council, beat the current chairman of the Liberal Party's city council group Erik Viborg at the Liberal Party's nomination meeting.
The Liberal Party has also entered into an unusual electoral partnership with the Social Democrats, who, despite the electoral alliance, also have their leader Jens Jensen as their mayoral candidate.
In addition, the Denmark Democrats' lead candidate Mads Fuglede, who does not sit on the city council, but in the Folketing, has registered as a mayoral candidate. And the Christian Democrats' leader Kristian Andersen is also running for the post.
With SF's Niels Rasmussen on the field, there are now five candidates who would like to head the city council in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality, where attitudes towards green transition and the number of renewable energy plants play a significant role in the election campaign.
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