Relationships To Other Parties
The Danish Social Liberal Party has traditionally kept itself in the centre of the political scale. Since the early nineties, though, it has primarily cooperated with the Social Democrats. During the 2007 election, the possibility of cooperating with Anders Fogh Rasmussen's Liberal-Conservative government, though, became a source of debate within the party, but was rejected by the parliamentary group leader Margrethe Vestager.
Up to the 2011 elections, the party participated in a number of reforms of fiscal policy and pensions with Lars Løkke Rasmussen's right-wing cabinet. These reforms included cuts and austerity measures and went against the general policy proposed by the rest of the opposition which consisted of social-democratic and socialist parties, but Vestager's party nevertheless maintained support for the Social Democratic candidate for Prime Minister, while making clear that they would seek to cooperate across the middle also after the election.
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