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First Schlüter Cabinet

62nd Cabinet of Denmark
1982-1984
Schlüter in 1983
Date formed10 September 1982 (1982-09-10)
Date dissolved10 January 1984 (1984-01-10)
People and organisations
Head of stateMargrethe II of Denmark
Head of governmentPoul Schlüter
No. of ministers21
Member partiesConservative People's Party
Venstre
Centre Democrats
Christian Democrats
Status in legislatureMinority government



Supported by:
Danish Social Liberal Party
Progress Party
Opposition partiesSocial Democrats
Socialist People's Party
Left Socialists
Union Party
Social Democratic Party
Atassut
Siumut
History
Legislature term1981-1984
PredecessorJørgensen V

The Schlüter I cabinet was the first cabinet of Prime Minister of Denmark Poul Schlüter. It first formed on 10 September 1982 and lasted until the 1984 general election on 10 January 1984,[1][2] before reforming the day afterwards and continuing until the 1987 Danish general election on 8 September 1987.[3][note 1] The government was a coalition of the Conservative Party, the Agrarian Liberals, the Centre Democrats, and the Christian Democrats.[4]: 42  The coalition was a minority government and relied heavily on external support from the Progress Party and the Radical Liberals.[5][6]: 106  Schlüter was the first conservative prime minister since 1901,[7] when Hannibal Sehested of the Højre party was in office, and the first ever from the Conservative Party.

History

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On 3 September 1982, Anker Jørgensen's government resigned after failing to get support for their austerity policies and Margrethe II invited Schlüter to try to form a new government.[8]

A general election was called when the coalition's Finance Bill was defeated.[9] After a 10-hour debate on the bill, and with the Social Democrats and the Progress Party opposing it, the government was defeated by 93 votes to 77.[9] After the 1984 election, the Radical Liberals announced their support for the government's austerity measures but said they would oppose US missile deployments in Denmark.[5]

After the 1987 election, the four coalition parties and the Radical Liberals only had 81 seats among them; although the Progress Party had nine seats which would have given the government a majority, the Radical Liberals refused to enter a coalition with them, seeing the party as extreme and racist.[10]

Notes

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  1. ^ Although this technically constitutes two separate ministries, since there were no changes to the cabinet after the 1984 election, they are treated as one cabinet in this article.

References

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  1. ^ Alastair H. Thomas (1988). "The 1987 Danish election". West European Politics. 11 (2): 114–118. doi:10.1080/01402388808424686.
  2. ^ "Denmark: Schlüter I". Party Systems and Governments Observatory. University of Nottingham. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Denmark: Schlüter II". Party Systems and Governments Observatory. University of Nottingham. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  4. ^ Lauri Karvonen (1993). "In From the Cold? Christian Parties in Scandinavia". Scandinavian Political Studies. 16 (1): 25–47.
  5. ^ a b Rolf Soderland (10 January 1984). "Danish Prime Minister Poul Schluter's conservative coalition government was..." UPI. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  6. ^ Kaare Strøm (1990). Minority Government and Majority Rule. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521374316.
  7. ^ Niels Kærgård (2023). "The Danish Economy, 1973–2009: From National Welfare State to International Market Economy". Scandinavian Journal of History: 1–26. doi:10.1080/03468755.2023.2268084.
  8. ^ "Prime Minister Anker Jorgensen officially resigned from office today..." UPI. 3 September 1982. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  9. ^ a b Alastair H. Thomas (1985). "The Danish Folketing election of 1984". West European Politics. 8 (1): 113–115. doi:10.1080/01402388508424518.
  10. ^ Howell Raines (10 September 1987). "Danish Leader, After Losses, Seeks New Coalition". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 March 2024.