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The Social Democrats’ analysis department assigned Rasmus Prehn a ’green profile’ and instructed him on his responses for the candidate quiz. Election researchers find this concerning.

The Social Democrat leadership instructed the minister to defy the party line in the candidate quiz

Animation: Tomas Østergren. Foto: Jens Dresling
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It is the fall of 2022, and the Danish parliamentary election campaign is drawing to a close.

Posters featuring politicians’ faces are hanging from lampposts all over the country, hopeful candidates in colorful windbreakers are handing out candies and flyers in pedestrian streets, and party leaders are debating fiercely on TV channels to win the favor of voters.

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