The municipality is completely without known top candidates for the election.

Municipality is completely without known top candidates for the election

This is a highly unusual situation, according to a municipal researcher at the Danish School of Media and Journalism

New top candidate for the Conservative People's Party in Varde Municipality, Henrik Vej Kastrupsen. The former press officer and tourist chief, however, does not consider himself as such. (Photo: © David Wennemoes Carlsen, DR) 54 minutes ago

There will be three new names that will appear at the top of the lists for the three major parties in Varde municipality for the municipal election in November.

Both the current mayor of the municipality Mads Sørensen from Venstre and the social democrat Søren Laulund have previously withdrawn - and yesterday followed the Conservative's spidskandidat Steen Holm Iversen after and announced that he is stopping in politics. The three politicians were also those who received the most personal votes at the last election.

Roger Buch, who is a municipal researcher at the Danish School of Media and Journalism, says that he cannot remember similar cases.

- It is highly unusual that so many top candidates withdraw so close to the election, says Roger Buch.

- I have previously seen examples of the replacement of a single top candidate close to the election, but three in Varde Municipality I would describe as extremely unusual, says Roger Buch.

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I am still as unknown as well

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Henrik Vej Kastrupsen is now the new top candidate for the conservatives, and he acknowledges that voters will have to get to know many new faces:

- It can be difficult for voters to find the candidate they will vote for when so many new politicians come. I have myself been in two periods in the council, and as chairman of the Oksbøl Citizens and Business Association, I have also been very involved in the wolf debate, so I will dare to claim that people here in the municipality know me, says Henrik Vej Kastrupsen.

The former press officer from Oksbøl goes humbly to the task, but he also knows well that every step he takes now is observed by significantly more people than before he became the top candidate.

- That's how it is, and I also know well that when I first announce that I am going after the mayor's position, the eyes are extra focused on me, admits Henrik Vej Kastrupsen.

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There should be peace now

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He, however, will not call it a failure if he does not end up with the mayor's chain after the election in November.

- There are many things that need to go up a level if I am to become Varde's new mayor. The most important thing is also that there comes more peace again in the council. The last 4 years have been quite turbulent, says the new top candidate for the conservatives.

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