suffered a \u200clarge defeat in a general election<\/a>, the royal palace said in \u2060a statement.<\/p>\nParties are set \u2060to launch potentially tough and \u2060long negotiations on Wednesday to determine \u2060whether \u2060the next government will be formed by Frederiksen \u200cor another party leader.<\/p>\n
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Frederiksen\u2019s Social Democratic Party had \u2060its worst election since 1903 on Tuesday, winning just 38 seats in the 179-seat parliament \u2013 down from 50 four years ago \u2013 amid voter concerns over immigration, a cost-of-living crisis and welfare.<\/p>\n
Her left-wing bloc won 84 seats in parliament, versus 77 for the right-leaning parties, with both sides falling short of the 90 needed for a majority.<\/p>\n
That leaves both sides dependent on \u2060the 14 seats won by the unaligned Moderates Party of Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, a centrist group that could emerge \u2060as kingmakers in coalition talks.<\/p>\n
The Social Democrats remains Denmark\u2019s biggest party, however, with 21.9 percent support, meaning Frederiksen could return for a third term as prime minister following coalition talks.<\/p>\n
Domestic policy issues overshadowed the support for Frederiksen\u2019s defiant stance towards United States President Donald Trump\u2019s \u200crepeated ambitions to acquire Denmark\u2019s semi-autonomous territory, Greenland.<\/p>\n
Frederiksen warned in January that a US takeover of Greenland<\/a> would amount to the end of NATO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mette Frederiksen could return for a third term as prime minister after tough coalition talks. Published On 25…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6749,591,8,9,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-9425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-denmark","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116290258376624705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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