"Some of the media have said 'OK, we have to do better, '" says Mogens Jensen, a member of the committee.

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Polls suggest that most voters see him, and not the opposition leader, Mogens Lykketoft, as the best guarantor of their social system.

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All this comes at a time when the Progress Party, until recently the most right-wing party in parliament, has just readmitted Mogens Glistrup, the vociferous and extreme opponent of immigration who helped found the party.

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