Denmark\u2019s acting Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen announced on Friday that his effort to form a centre-right government had failed, extending the post-election deadlock in the Nordic nation\u2019s parliament. <\/p>\n
A\u00a0March election\u00a0resulted in a fragmented \u200bassembly of 12 parties, with Prime \u200bMinister Mette Frederiksen resigning after her \u2060Social Democrats remained the largest party but \u200bsuffered their worst election result since 1903, News.Az<\/a> reports, citing Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n Poulsen, \u200bleader of the right-wing Liberal Party, had been asked by the king to explore government options \u200bafter caretaker Prime Minister Frederiksen’s own\u00a0coalition talks \u200bcollapsed\u00a0earlier this month.<\/p>\n He had sought to form a \u200cgovernment, \u2060seeking backing from right-wing parties, but failed to secure support from Lars Lokke Rasmussen’s centrist Moderate Party, which had abandoned \u200btalks with \u200bFrederiksen and \u2060proposed that Poulsen be given the task.<\/p>\n Denmark’s King Frederik will \u200bnow hold fresh talks with party \u200bleaders \u2060and could ask Frederiksen to make another attempt at forming a government, or hand \u2060the \u200btask to one of \u200bthe other party leaders.<\/p>\n