Fokus is a political party in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. The party was founded in 2010, originally as a splinter group of the Danish People’s Party (DF), but the politics of Fokus differs from that of DF in quite a number of issues; for example, while DF supports the centre-right government led by Lars Løkke Rasmussen

Lars Løkke Rasmussen

Lars Løkke Rasmussen is a Danish politician who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from April 2009 to October 2011. He is the leader of the centre-right liberal party, Venstre....

, Fokus supports Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Helle Thorning-Schmidt is a Danish politician and the current Prime Minister of Denmark. She has been leader of the Danish Social Democrats since April 2005 and prime minister since October 2011....

 of the opposition Social Democrats as their candidate for prime minister.

Representation

The party currently has 1 member of the Danish parliament Folketinget and two members of local city councils, one in Viborg

Viborg municipality

Viborg municipality is a municipality in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,390 km², and has a total population of 92,084...

 and one in Lejre

Lejre

Lejre is a town with a population of 2,343 and a municipality on the island of Zealand in east Denmark. It belongs to Region Sjælland. The town's Old Norse name was Hleiðra. The municipality has an area of 240 km² and a total population of ca. 26,603 . Its mayor is Mette Touborg, representing the...

. The leader of the party is MP Christian Hansen

Christian Hansen (politician)

Christian Hansen is a Danish politician from Odense and current member of the Folketing. From 1998 to 2010, Hansen served as a representative of the Danish People's Party before resigning from the party on January 19, 2010. Hansen had served as the DPP's spokesman for animal rights. He...

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Political positions

The main issues of Fokus are environmental and energy policy and animal welfare. Fokus brands itself as “the greenest party of Denmark”. Another important issue is social welfare, and the party persistently emphasizes the need for more balance everywhere in society, not least between the bigger cities and smaller communities in the countryside, an issue which has become increasingly debated in Denmark since 2010, especially with respect to health policy. Although taking a regionalist stance on many issues, Fokus wants to close down the so-called regions (administrative entities on the level between state and municipalities) and let the state take over the responsibility for hospitals, currently run by these regions. The slogan of Fokus is (in Danish

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

) Frihed Omsorg Kommunikation Udholdenhed Samarbejde (Freedom Care Communication Persistence Cooperation).