2014 European Parliament election in Denmark
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The 2014 European Parliament election in Denmark was an election held in Denmark on 25 May 2014 to decide who would represent Denmark in the European Parliament (EP) from 2014 to 2019. The Danish People's Party with 26.6% of the votes became the largest party for the first time in a nationwide Danish election.
The election was held alongside the Danish Unified Patent Court membership referendum where 62.5% of the voter approved ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court.
Campaign
All parties in the Folketing except the Red–Green Alliance participated in the election. In addition, the People's Movement against the EU participated. Several parties had incumbent candidates as lead candidates: Bendt Bendtsen for the Conservative People's Party, Margrete Auken for the Socialist People's Party (Denmark) and Morten Messerschmidt for the Danish People's Party. Three of the parties represented in the EP had new lead candidates: Jeppe Kofod for the Social DemocratsUlla Tørnæs for Venstre and Rina Ronja Kari for the People's Movement against the EU. The Danish Social Liberal Party which was not represented in the EP had Morten Helveg Petersen on top of the list while the Liberal Alliance which similarly was not represented had Christina Egelund.
After the Danish People's Party and the Red–Green Alliance opposed Danish membership in the Unified Patent Court, the Danish cabinet in December 2013 decided to hold a referendum on the issue, since joining the court was judicially regarded as transferring sovereignty and would have required five-sixths majority in the parliament to be approved without a referendum.
A central theme in the campaign was the claim of benefit tourism as a threat to the Danish welfare state, a position the Danish People's Party fronted and which was partly supported by Venstre, the Conservatives and the Social Democrats. The Social Liberal Party took the most positive position towards free movement of people inside the EU and was supported by Danish businesses.
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