One of two elected members of the Fællesliste Party, which purports to support Denmark’s fringe areas, has left the party and called its members a bunch of ‘village idiots’.

Poul A. Christensen, who, like Party Chairman Leif Hornshøj, was an elected councillor of the Central Jutland Regional Council, chose to leave the party last night after a chaotic meeting of party leaders and candidates.

“There are some of them in the party I would call village idiots,” says Christensen, who felt the wrath of the assembled party board and regional candidates upon presenting a party programme he had been asked to produce, and which his chairman had approved.

“But some of them were angry that I was the one to produce the programme – they had a need to mark off their territory. But we tried to do it as a joint thing – and it didn’t work. So things got a bit chaotic. Some of them are village idiots – people who don’t understand what politics is, and how it functions,” says Christensen.

Chairman Hornshøj, who is now the party’s only elected member, says he doesn’t accept the village idiot description.

“I don’t recognise his description. The rest of us had a good discussion after he left. So if there are village idiots in the party they must be all 12 who were there,” says Hornshøj, who still believes fully in a project to become the first fringe area party in Parliament.

The Fælleslisten Party is a new party that seeks to decentralise Denmark and develop hospitals, educational establishments and employment in outlying areas.