Mette Frederiksen has secured a third term as Denmark’s prime minister as a coalition deal was reached around 10 weeks after parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n
Social Democrat Frederiksen will lead a new centre-left government consisting of four parties.<\/p>\n
Late on Monday, Frederiksen informed King Frederik X of her intention to form a coalition made up of her Social Democrats, the Socialist People’s Party, the right-wing liberal Venstre party and the centrist Moderates.<\/p>\n
“His Majesty the King has subsequently invited acting Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to form such a government,” read a statement from the Danish Royal House.<\/p>\n
The four parties combined hold 82 seats in the Danish parliament, short of the 90 required for a majority.<\/p>\n
Although minority governments are common in Denmark, a governing coalition must avoid facing a majority opposition in parliament. To ensure this, the new government needs the support of, for example, the eleven seats held by the left-wing Red-Green Alliance. The party announced on Facebook on Monday night that it would have “big news for Denmark tomorrow.”<\/p>\n
This is Frederiksen’s third term, following her wins in 2019 and 2022. She had previously lost the mandate to form a new government after failing to reach a coalition deal despite weeks of negotiations.<\/p>\n
The leader of the right-wing liberal Venstre party, Troels Lund Poulsen, was then given a chance to form a government but his efforts also failed. Frederiksen has been back in charge for just over a week.<\/p>\n
Former Danish prime minister, and current foreign minister, Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen and his centrist Moderates once again played a crucial role in the government negotiations. Rasmussen spoke with both sides and broke off negotiations twice.<\/p>\n
Frederiksen plans to present the new government’s priorities on Tuesday. The new ministers are then scheduled to be presented to the king on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mette Frederiksen has secured a third term as Denmark’s prime minister as a coalition deal was reached around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[25447,9157,27,26,3396,4090,4201],"class_list":["post-97229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-danish-parliament","tag-danish-prime-minister","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-mette-frederiksen","tag-munich-security-conference","tag-prime-minister"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116677501639608155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97229","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=97229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}