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COPENHAGEN, Denmark \u2013 Danish voters went to the polls Tuesday in a general election, with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen seeking a third term at the helm of the Scandinavian country after a standoff with U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> over the future of the kingdom\u2019s semiautonomous territory of Greenland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More than 4.3 million people are eligible to have their say in the vote for the new Folketing, or parliament, in Copenhagen, which is elected for a four-year term.<\/p>\n

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