{"id":40105,"date":"2026-03-14T14:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/40105\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T14:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:55:20","slug":"orsted-faces-fresh-exit-calls-ahead-of-denmarks-election-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/40105\/","title":{"rendered":"Orsted faces fresh exit calls ahead of Denmark\u2019s election"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to the Finans media report, the four parties said that the government should first draft an exit plan and then sell its Orsted shares later at an opportune time.<\/p>\n

(March 3):\u00a0Orsted A\/S is again becoming a hot political topic in Denmark, with several parties calling on the government to sell its stake in the wind energy company after the upcoming election, according to local media.<\/p>\n

Four parties on Denmark\u2019s political right want an exit plan for the state\u2019s 50.1% ownership stake after the March 24 parliament vote, Finans reported on Tuesday. A fifth party, the Liberals which is part of the government coalition, said it won\u2019t oppose the idea. Between them, the five parties control about 40% of the current seats in parliament.<\/p>\n

Denmark\u2019s government has just taken part in a rescue package for Orsted, contributing half of October\u2019s 60-billion krone (US$9.4 billion)\u00a0rights issue\u00a0that the company needed to tackle the downturn in the wind-power industry. The Liberals also\u00a0campaigned on a sale\u00a0of Orsted in the 2022 national elections, though dropped the plan after forming a coalition government with the Social Democrats, who oppose a sale.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the power shifts from the current middle-government, towards a right-wing government, Orsted\u2019s days as a publicly owned entity could be counted,\u201d Jakob Magnussen, head of credit research at Danske Bank A\/S, said in a note in response to the media report. Still, current opinion polls suggest it\u2019s more likely Denmark will get \u201ca left-wing government which has not expressed willingness to sell Orsted,\u201d the analyst said.<\/p>\n

The five right-wing parties stand to win 74 of parliament\u2019s 179 seats in the upcoming vote, falling short of a majority, according to the\u00a0latest poll\u00a0by public broadcaster DR.<\/p>\n

According to the Finans media report, the four parties said that the government should first draft an exit plan and then sell its Orsted shares later at an opportune time. The media quoted representatives from the Conservatives, Liberal Alliance, the Danish People\u2019s Party and the Denmark Democrats. Denmark should first carve out those of Orsted\u2019s assets that are critical to the country\u2019s energy infrastructure and keep those before a sale, Finans quoted representatives from two of the parties as saying.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s role in Orsted has a long history of controversy. In 2014, the finance ministry sold a stake to Goldman Sachs Group Inc, which sparked large protests and caused the\u00a0government coalition to splinter\u00a0as the Socialist People\u2019s Party walked out in protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Finans media report, the four parties said that the government should first draft an exit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[26,22765,1065,287,16112],"class_list":{"0":"post-40105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orsted","8":"tag-denmark","9":"tag-exit-plan","10":"tag-media-report","11":"tag-orsted","12":"tag-social-democrats"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116228110751146420","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}