Prime Minister Mette Fredriksen’s Social Democrats were able to retain their leading role in the Danish parliamentary elections, but will no longer have a majority in parliament with their previous allies. This is apparent from a post-election poll by the Danish broadcaster DR, which was published at 8 p.m. on Tuesday evening after the elections. Accordingly, the center-left camp has 85 out of 179 MPs, the center-right camp has 73 MPs.
The new party “The Moderates” of former right-wing liberal Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, which is expected to have 17 seats or 9.3 percent of the vote, will thus become the kingmaker. Fredriksen’s Social Democrats received 23.1 percent of the vote, slightly less than the 2019 elections (25.9 percent).
Fredriksen wants broad government
Until now, Fredriksen’s social-democratic minority government has mainly received support from the left, but this time she is aiming for a broad government across traditional bloc borders. The centre-right coalition around the liberal-conservative party Venstre is against.
In the Faroe Islands, which are part of the Kingdom of Denmark, voters were allowed to vote on Monday to mark a day of remembrance for Faroese people who died at sea. As local broadcaster KVF reported after all votes were counted, the two strongest Faroese parties will each keep their mandates – one assigned to the centre-left bloc in the Danish parliament, the other to the centre-right bloc. The seat of the pro-Danish party Sambandsflokkurin is taken over by the 26-year-old Anna Falkenberg from her grandfather Edmund Joensen.
The Danish Parliament in Copenhagen has 179 seats. Two of these are for representatives of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, each of which is largely autonomous but officially belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark.
Source: Krone
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