Parties are prioritizing foreign-born voters more than ever. And with good reason: they’re an increasingly important, largely untapped part of the electorate.
Parties set their sights on half a million foreign-born voters
On Rentemestervej in Copenhagen’s Nordvest district, DemokratiGaragen is hosting a series of voter forums aimed at foreign residents. On Wednesday night, there was a line out the door to hear the English-language debate. Foto: Bjørn van Overeem
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20 percent. That is how many of the voters in the upcoming municipal election in Copenhagen are foreigners, and on Wednesday evening, around 150 of them gathered for a debate in a packed room at a beer bar in Nordvest.
On stage, candidates from all established parties discussed municipal politics in English. Among the audience, their responses were whispered about in Spanish, German, Lithuanian, and Greek.
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