The latest Megafon poll for Politiken and TV2 shows the prime minister’s Liberal Party dropping 1.7 percentage points compared with a month ago and almost four percentage points under its 2007 election result.

The Liberal result at 22.4 percent is its lowest since October 2008.

“There have been internal discussions in the Liberal party about mandatory pre-school food. Voters want clear answers rather than internal discussions and that is something that can be seen in the polls. Also the discussions there have been with the Conservatives. Luckily a solution is near. We have to stop discussing with each other like this,” says Liberal Political Spokesman Peter Christensen.

Nonetheless he does not plan to instruct his colleagues to change.

“I don’t think that’s necessary. The poll speaks its very clear language,” he says and bemoans the fact that the Liberal Party is now almost four percent under its election result.

Conservatives positive
The Conservatives on the other hand do not feel that disagreements within the government parties have been a major problem and are happy with their own minor advance at 0.5 percentage points.

“I think the reason is that we have made it clear that we want reforms. We believe that the electorate wants answers as to how we can solve the economic problems in the long run and are quite prepared to listen to unpopular proposals,” says Conservative Political Spokeswoman Henriette Kjær.

But she is not happy with indications that for the second month in a row, the opposition parties would win if an election were held now.

“That is something we have to change. We can only do that by showing resolve and making sure that economic policy is not the only thing to be addressed. We must also remember our values,” she says.

Opposition 90 seats
According to the poll, the opposition Social Democrats, Social Liberals, Socialist People’s Party and Unity List would garner 90 seats if an election were held today, while the Liberals, Conservatives and Danish People’s parties would win 85 seats. Denmark’s Folketing has 179 seats, with two seats each reserved for Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

“We are happy to see an indication of a new majority. We have noticed how badly it’s going for the Liberals at the moment and I think it has to do with the fact that they have lost their grip on economic policy. They started out saying everything was fine, and now they’re talking about drastic remedies. The electorate doesn’t see consistency,” says Social Democratic Political Spokesman Henrik Sass Larsen.