[10] According to Rasmussen, Moderaterne is a centrist party that has the ambition to create "progress and change in a crossroads between a blue bloc that is tormented by value politics and a red bloc that is stuck in a past view of individual and state".

On 15 September 2021 Lars Løkke Rasmussen announced that they had received the 20,182 signatures needed to be eligible to stand in the 2022 Danish general election.

[13][14][15] The Moderates saw a surge in popularity during campaigning for the 2022 general election, eventually ending up as the third largest party with 16 seats,[16] as polls had suggested.

[17] They had positioned themselves as kingmakers in deciding who the next prime minister should be,[18] but the incumbent red bloc won a majority, thus preventing the Moderates from having the decisive seats in the next government.

[19] Despite this, the Moderates entered negotiations with the Social Democrats and Venstre and successfully formed a grand coalition government, the Frederiksen II Cabinet.