{"id":91024,"date":"2026-05-24T10:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T10:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/91024\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T10:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T10:19:11","slug":"denmarks-frederiksen-gets-a-second-chance-to-form-next-government-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/91024\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark\u2019s Frederiksen gets a second chance to form next government \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danish caretaker Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced a new round of talks to form the next government <a href=\"https:\/\/nyheder.tv2.dk\/live\/politik\/2026-02-26-folketingsvalg-2026\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/nyheder.tv2.dk\/live\/politik\/2026-02-26-folketingsvalg-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">would begin Sunday<\/a> after she was reappointed by the king to lead the coalition negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark\u2019s royal household on Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kongehuset.dk\/nyheder\/ny-forhandlingsleder-udpeget-23052026\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.kongehuset.dk\/nyheder\/ny-forhandlingsleder-udpeget-23052026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">issued a statement<\/a> saying that King Frederik X \u201crequested acting Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to lead negotiations on forming a government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frederiksen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/denmark-deputy-pm-lead-coalition-talks-frederiksen-effort-fails\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/denmark-deputy-pm-lead-coalition-talks-frederiksen-effort-fails\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">failed to form a new coalition<\/a> in the first round of negotiations before handing over to Deputy Prime Minister Troels Lund Poulsen, leader of the center-right Venstre party. Poulsen <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2057869995300790323\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2057869995300790323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> late Friday that the talks broke down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did my best. \u2026 Now I\u2019m going home to recharge. And yes \u2026 maybe mow some grass instead of untangling political knots,\u201d Lund Poulsen said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYrteToCXTm\/?igsh=MTZtcTAwb2U0cHlqMQ%3D%3D\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYrteToCXTm\/?igsh=MTZtcTAwb2U0cHlqMQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post<\/a> on Instagram that included an image of him beside his lawn mower.<\/p>\n<p>Frederiksen\u2019s Social Democrats secured the most votes in the parliamentary election on March 24, but the party\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/europe-social-democrats-losing-election\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fell far short of a majority<\/a>\u00a0in the Folketing, the Danish parliament. <\/p>\n<p>The negotiations have since been deadlocked, continuing for 60 days and becoming the longest government formation process in Danish history at a particularly sensitive time, as tensions involving Greenland and the United States are adding to the political pressure.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danish caretaker Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced a new round of talks to form the next government would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,26,4930,16895,57,1193,3396,3654,2855,76],"class_list":["post-91024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-elections","tag-elections-in-europe","tag-greenland","tag-history","tag-mette-frederiksen","tag-negotiations","tag-parliament","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116629049725504838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91024","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=91024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}