While a number of mayors from the Liberal Party in northwestern Jutland - in Viborg, Thisted, Skive, Lemvig and Ringkøbing-Skjern - have announced that they will not run again, things are different further south. Here, the mayor of Esbjerg, Jesper Frost Rasmussen (V), is now the last Liberal Party mayor in Southern Denmark to be re-elected as a mayoral candidate for another term.
- I think it's an absolutely fantastic job, and I hope I get to continue in it after the upcoming election. I don't feel like I've finished the work at all, he tells JydskeVestkysten.
Jesper Frost Rasmussen is 49 years old and is in his second term as mayor. The Liberal Party has held the mayor's post in the municipality since the local government reform.
In Kerteminde, the Liberal Party has re-elected Jens Gantriis as mayoral candidate, writes Kjerteminde Avis. Here, however, the party is somewhat smaller than in Esbjerg: Gantriis is the party's only city council member, after Bettina Eriksen, who won the second of the party's two mandates after KV21, switched to the Liberal Alliance last year.
In Vordingborg, the Liberal Alliance has chosen 63-year-old businessman Jakob Helles as its lead candidate, writes Vordingborg.in. He moved back to Præstø, where he grew up, 12 years ago, after a career as, among other things, a group director. The party did not run in Vordingborg at KV21.
In Viborg, the newly founded party Velfærdsdemokraterne is running for the first time. The party was founded by the four city council members who left the Social Democrats this summer after internal unrest in the party, and all four have chosen to run again, according to the party.
It is not stated who will be the lead candidate, but a good bet is group chair Mette Nielsen, who has previously run as a Social Democratic mayoral candidate. This summer, a general meeting of the troubled Social Democratic party association decided that she was not allowed to run again at KV25, and this was the reason why the four left the party and founded a new one.
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