Talk:Vice-Prime Minister of Denmark

This section as about a previous version.--Klausok (talk) 08:29, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

This article is wrong in its entirety. Denmark does not have a deputy prime minister. The ministers have an order of presedence, and the second ranking minister will stand in for the prime minister when required. Traditionally this has been the minister of forreign affairs. When this tradition has not been followed, the press has informally referred to the second ranking minister as "vicestatsminister".--Klausok (talk) 17:53, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Bendt Bensen was not the first deputy prime minister.

This is all from following the news over several decades. If I understand the term correctly, that makes in "original research", and inadmissible in the article, but here it is on the talk page:

Denmark does not normally have a deputy prime minister. There is a traditional ranking of ministries, with the ministry of forreign affairs the next after the prime minister. I believe the first deputy prime minister was appointed in 1982. A coalition government was formed. Henning Christophersen was leader of the second largest party, and therefore the obvious candidate for forreign minister. However, he had been forreign minister before, and intensely disliked the many travels that post required. So he took another ministry, and the order of predecence was explicitly changed to make him the deputy prime minister. The situation was regularized when he left Danish politics, and the forreign minister became the new party leader. But the precedent having been set, several others have been deputy prime minister since then. Mimi Jacobsen and Marianne Jelved come to mind. Jelved has also been second deputy prime minister, as leader of the third largest party in a coalition. --Klausok (talk) 07:33, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Is this notable?
I have just changed the content of the article to fit the facts. But maybe I should have nominated it for deletion instead. Does this meet Wikipedia's notability criterion? --Klausok (talk) 08:45, 26 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Based on the current sources, I´d say no. Merge to Deputy Prime Minister. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:49, 26 October 2016 (UTC)