All those times politicians groped ‘Borgen’

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It is the series that representatives of all politicians have most resorted to. They all want to look alike. Now it’s back, with a fourth season, to give them more ammunition

Few series have been so captivated by the political class as ‘Borgen’, the Danish production that became a phenomenon between 2010 and 2013. Pablo Iglesias, Pedro Sánchez, Mónica Oltra or Albert Rivera, among others, mentioned in their speeches that they tried to appropriate it. Both wanted to see themselves reflected in the fiction created by Adam Price who told how the leader of the Moderate Party of Denmark managed to lead a coalition government with the Greens and the Workers’ Party, despite the fact that her formation had been third in terms of number of seats. . For three seasons, viewers witnessed the juggling the main character, Birgitte Nyborg, had to do to run her program, and the personal bills caused by her position.

Such was the success that Danish chain DR and Netflix have teamed up to record a fourth series of episodes, which will be available in Spain from Thursday, June 2. Nine years have passed since the efforts in Christianborg moved the whole world – it was broadcast in 75 territories – enough time for our country’s leaders to take advantage of everything that happened in each episode to interpret it in their ideology or mode. to include operandi. In fact, the series comes just in time to blow up new conspiracies in the politicians who are still active (there are few of them) and the new ones that have entered the arena.

Albert Rivera was the one who most invoked the ‘Borgenpact’ when he was still in charge of Ciudadanos and Ciudadanos had a promising future ahead of it. With him, he wanted to become president of the government, as Pedro Sánchez did not have enough support to enter Moncloa, or a key figure in Andalusia, in the previous elections in which his party won 21 seats in the Andalusian parliament. They were talking about ‘Borgen Strategy’, something that didn’t catch on with their opponents. Fiction is fine as an example, but not as good as it needs to be turned into reality. Nyborg’s oratory and negotiation skills were one of the most notable aspects of the series in its early seasons, which dealt the president with issues related to the armed forces, the economy, or social rights. There were episodes devoted entirely to capturing the dialogues and concessions between rivals in order to reach agreements.

Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias called on the ‘Borgen candidate’ in the 2017 Catalan elections. Both claimed that their representatives, Miquel Iceta for the PSOE and Xavier Domènech for Catalunya and Comú, were the ideal leaders to form a coalition government. between armed forces with affinity ideologically With these campaign statements, the two acknowledged that they did not expect to win the election (the moderates did not in the series) and clung to the wildcard of subsequent negotiations in the offices. This time there was no translation from the screen to the Catalan reality.

Nyborg’s example remained unblemished as the plots progressed to the point that she forced her husband not to accept a job offered to him in case she was thought to have intervened. This conflict of interest has not prevented friends and acquaintances of political representatives from occupying positions of power in Spanish politics because of who they are. For all these reasons, ‘Borgen’ is considered by many to be a series of political fiction, as it is impossible to transfer its lessons to the real scene.

Mónica Oltra, leader of Compromís, after proclaiming herself Vice President of the Valencian Community, recommended that her team see this title to inspire them. He was such a fan that even when choosing a color to paint the press room from which he would address the journalists, he thought of the Nyborg staging.

Another of the most relevant parts of ‘Borgen’ was the vision it offered of the press, committed to its work of oversight, and of the relationship that had developed between politicians and journalists and how complicated it was sometimes to boundaries not to exceed to be honest each with his profession.

Manuela Carmena, Esperanza Aguirre and even Queen Letizia have confessed to feeling represented by the main character. And see that the three respond to very different profiles. That is another of the successes of this production, which manages to arouse interest among people with completely opposite world views.

‘Borgen’ has been revived with eight episodes, available on Netflix, and most of those who once admired it will now watch it from their homes, far from the political frontline that ousted them. Nyborg also left politics to return with a new party later in the third season. In these unpublished deliveries, the main character is the Secretary of State and with Russia as the main threat to Denmark and Greenland. The writers have once again shown a good nose here, anticipating what happened with the invasion of Ukraine.

Source: La Verdad

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