{"id":78474,"date":"2026-05-09T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/78474\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:54:09","slug":"danish-deputy-pm-to-lead-coalition-talks-after-frederiksens-effort-fails-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/78474\/","title":{"rendered":"Danish deputy PM to lead coalition talks after Frederiksen\u2019s effort fails \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The king of Denmark late Friday charged Deputy Prime Minister Troels Lund Poulsen, leader of the center-right Venstre party, with trying to form the next government after Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen failed to build a new coalition.<\/p>\n

After a near deadlock in Denmark\u2019s\u00a0March 24 election<\/a>, Frederiksen \u2060has been leading coalition negotiations<\/a> in a bid to secure what would be \u200bher third term in office. Frederiksen\u2019s Social Democrats secured the most votes in the parliamentary election, but the party fell far short of a majority in the Folketing, the Danish parliament.<\/p>\n

Denmark\u2019s royal household\u00a0issued a statement<\/a> Friday night announcing that King Frederik X \u201chas requested the Chairman of the Liberal Party, Troels Lund Poulsen, to lead negotiations on the formation of a government that does not involve the participation of the Social Democrats and the Moderates.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frederiksen on Friday evening acknowledged the risk she might lose her post, telling the press<\/a>: \u201cThe Danes gave the Social Democrats a worse election result and have composed the Folketing in such a way that a center-right government could well be formed \u2014 it may well be that this is the beginning of that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The king of Denmark late Friday charged Deputy Prime Minister Troels Lund Poulsen, leader of the center-right Venstre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,26,4930,233,3396,3654,2855],"class_list":{"0":"post-78474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denmark","8":"tag-danmark","9":"tag-denmark","10":"tag-elections","11":"tag-european-politics","12":"tag-mette-frederiksen","13":"tag-negotiations","14":"tag-parliament"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116544016649179398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78474","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=78474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}