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Spokesperson | |- | colspan="2" bgcolor="" | |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | Founded | 1905 |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" |Headquarters | Christiansborg
1240 København K |- | colspan="2" bgcolor="" | |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" |Political ideology | Social Liberalism |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" |International affiliation | Liberal International |- | colspan="2" bgcolor="" | |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" |Website | http://www.radikale.dk |} Det Radikale Venstre (literally: The Radical Left, but officially translated by the party as Danish Social Liberal Party), is a social liberal party in Denmark.

Origin and alliances

The party is a member of Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. It was founded in 1905 as a split from the liberal Venstre Reform Party. The literal translation radical left is nowadays somewhat misleading, as the party is traditionally described as being in the center of the Danish left-right political scale. The use of the word for "left" in the name of the mother party Venstre and the Norwegian party Venstre is also meant to refer to Liberalism and not Socialism.

Electoral record

The party president is Søren Bald and it has seventeen members of parliament. By far the most prominent member, however, is parliament group leader and spokesperson Marianne Jelved, former vice prime minister and minister of economic affairs. The party is currently in opposition.

The party performed well at the 2005 elections, adding 8 seats to its group. It now has 17 seats with 9.2 % of the popular vote. The party remains in opposition to the right-wing coalition, led by the Liberal Party.

Lately the party has been inspired by Richard Florida's book "The rise of the Creative Class". The party have also released their own book/political program called "Det kreative Danmark" (The Creative Denmark).

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Det Radikale Venstre
Party logo
Leader Søren Bald
Political Parties in Denmark
Represented in the Folketing: Venstre (52) | Social Democrats (47) | Danish People's Party (24) | Conservative People's Party (18) | Danish Social Liberal Party (17) | Socialist People's Party (11) | Red-Green Alliance (6) | Siumut (Greenland) (1) | Inuit Ataqatigiit (Greenland) (1) | Republican Party (Faroe Islands) (1) | People's Party (Faroe Islands) (1)
Represented in the European Parliament: Social Democrats (5) | Venstre (3) | Danish People's Party (1) | Conservative People's Party (1) | Danish Social Liberal Party (1) | Socialist People's Party (1) | June Movement (1) | People's Movement against the EU (1)

 


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