Brussels, 15/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - Denmark is facing some important challenges in the June European elections as it lost two seats in the last general elections (14 seats now instead of 16 in 1999).
Legal expert Gitte Seeberg (43 ) will head the Conservative party list. Outgoing DEPUTY Christian Rovsing (68 ) will be in second place. The Social Democrat party led by former prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (60 ), with Henrik Dam Kristensen (46 ), former Agriculture Minister in second place. Britta Thomsen (49 ) will be in third and Christel Schaldemose (35 ) in fourth. The Liberal Party of the Right (Venstre) has published a list of candidates which is not in any particular order. In all likelihood it will be led by outgoing DEPUTY Karin Riis-Jorgensen (52 ). Outgoing Deputies include, Anne Jensen (52 ), Niels Busk (61 ) and Ole Sorensen (51 ) who, provisionally figure in second, third and fourth place, with Mogens Vad (45 ) in fifth. The Social Liberal Party (Radikale venstre) will be led by Anders Samuelsen (36 ), Finance Minister in 1992. Camilla Hersom (32 ) will be second place and the former minister for worship Johannes Lebech in third place. Socialist People's Party (post-communist) sees Margrete Auken heading the list (59). Outgoing deputy Pernille Frahm (50 ) is in second place. Ole Krarup (68 ), also an outgoing deputy, will head the People's Movement against the EU. The young political science student Ditte Staun (26 ) will be in second place. The list of the Danish People's Party (nationalist) swill be led by outgoing deputy Mogens Camre (67) with writer and journalist Ulla Dahlerup (61 ) in second place. Outgoing deputy Jens-Peter Bonde (55 ) will be at the head of the Movement in June with Hanne Dahl, a lecturer in social sciences in second place and outgoing deputy Bent Hindrup Andersen (60 ) in third. Trine Pertou Mach (34 ) will be in fourth place.