Denmark’s centre-left prime minister has said she wants to stay in her job after inconclusive election results left the country facing weeks of coalition talks.<\/p>\n
Mette Frederiksen has been seen by some in Britain’s Labour government as a role model for success, especially concerning her tough approach to immigration.<\/p>\n
Read more: Does UK fancy Danish model?<\/a><\/p>\n But her Social Democrats have been left bruised from the left and the right after a campaign dominated by the cost of living, which has proved damaging for incumbent leaders around the world in recent years.<\/p>\n She had called an early election<\/a> for Tuesday hoping her handling of foreign affairs – notably the crisis sparked by Donald Trump’s ambitions for Greenland – would see voters place their trust in her again.<\/p>\n What are the results?<\/p>\n While her party is again the largest on 21.9% of the vote, it’s well down on the 27.5% secured in 2022.<\/p>\n Tuesday’s vote leaves the Social Democrats with 38 seats in the 179-seat parliament.<\/p>\n Denmark’s Green party, to the prime minister’s left, won 11.6% of the vote and 20 seats.<\/p>\n The centre-right Liberal Party and Liberal Alliance won 18 seats (10.1%) and 16 seats (9.4%) respectively.<\/p>\n The anti-immigration Danish People’s Party won 9.1% of the vote and 16 seats – its vote share up 7% on last time.<\/p>\n With the left nor the right securing enough votes to form a coalition, it could leave the Moderates party – firmly in the centre ground – as kingmakers.<\/p>\n Led by foreign minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, a former PM, it won 14 seats.<\/p>\n It was part of the 2022-2026 coalition, with the Social Democrats and Liberal Party.<\/p>\n Coalition talks to commence<\/p>\n Ms Frederiksen said she was ready to stay on, saying Denmark “needs a stable government” in an “unsettled” world amid war in Europe and the Middle East.<\/p>\n “We are ready to take the lead,” she added.<\/p>\n Mr Rasmussen echoed the PM’s call for stability, saying Denmark – a NATO and EU member – “is a small country of six million people”, and “we must come together”.<\/p>\n But Liberal Party leader Troels Lund Poulsen, the defence minister, has indicated he will not go into coalition with the Social Democrats again.<\/p>\n Coalition governments are the norm in Denmark, like many other European countries, and there will now be weeks of negotiations about the make-up of the next administration.<\/p>\n What were the key issues?<\/p>\n Ms Frederikson has been PM since 2019. Now 48, she was the country’s youngest ever leader when first elected.<\/p>\n She defended her record during the campaign, citing having to deal with the pandemic, war in Ukraine, and being “threatened by the American president”.<\/p>\n But domestic issues like the cost of living and beyond were front and centre for voters, while she has been squeezed from the left and right.<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: Ms Frederikson has overseen one of the toughest approaches to migration in Europe, with refugee status temporary, \u2060conditional support and expectations of integration in society.<\/p>\n Some on the left believe she’s been much too tough, but the Danish People’s Party leader Morten Messerschmidt increased his support with a pledge to ensure net zero migration of Muslims.<\/p>\n On the economy, Ms Frederiksen had sought to enhance her leftist credentials with a wealth tax proposal – one of the policies which drove a wedge between her and Liberal leader Mr Poulsen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denmark’s centre-left prime minister has said she wants to stay in her job after inconclusive election results left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[3541,26890,27,26,184,26889,26803,3396,4201,16112,9095],"class_list":["post-47836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-coalition-talks","tag-danish-people39s-party","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-donald-trump","tag-election-results","tag-liberal-party","tag-mette-frederiksen","tag-prime-minister","tag-social-democrats","tag-troels-lund-poulsen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116287800889634984","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47836","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=47836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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