Denmark’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has, for now, lost her mandate to form a new government, one and a half months after the country’s general election.<\/p>\n
King Frederik X has now given the leader of the right-wing liberal Venstre party, Troels Lund Poulsen, the chance to try to form a coalition, the Danish Royal Court said late on Friday.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Frederiksen had recommended to the king that a further round of so-called “royal consultations” be held. In these, all parliamentary parties meet with the monarch and announce who they wish to see take the lead role in coalition talks.<\/p>\n
Following the first round of talks with the monarch after the general election at the end of March, Frederiksen had been given a mandate to attempt to form a government involving the Socialist People’s Party and the left-wing liberals, but has so far failed to achieve a breakthrough.<\/p>\n
During the negotiations, she had also spoken with her previous coalition partners: the right-wing liberals and the Moderates, a centrist party led by former prime minister Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen.<\/p>\n
Following the second round of talks with the king on Friday evening, it is now Poulsen’s turn to attempt to put together a coalition, for which he may look to the centre-right conservative camp.<\/p>\n
However, this does not necessarily mean the end of Frederiksen’s dream of a third term. She could still eventually become head of government \u2013 but for now she won’t be leading the negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denmark’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has, for now, lost her mandate to form a new government,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,26,42129,3396,12767,9095],"class_list":{"0":"post-79307","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-media-representatives","11":"tag-mette-frederiksen","12":"tag-prime-minister-of-denmark","13":"tag-troels-lund-poulsen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116552140367150026","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79307","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=79307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}