Nov. 2 () –
The left-wing coalition led by Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, has won the elections held this Tuesday in the country with 87 seats and more than 49 percent of the votes, which will allow the president to remain in government with an absolute majority. .
After the exit polls predicted that neither the left nor the right bloc would have a chance of reaching a majority, the final count of the votes in the North Atlantic territories such as Greenland or the Faroe Islands has given victory to the left, according to the public network TV2.
The Social Democratic Party has won two more seats than in the previous elections, when it won 48, thus obtaining more than twice as many seats as the second most voted party in the country, the conservative Venstre, which has gone from 43 to 23 seats.
The rest of the leftist coalition parties have managed to obtain 37 seats, which added to the Social Democratic seats, make a total of 87, three seats below the absolute majority, which is 90.
However, having won more seats than the right-wing bloc, the left will be able to negotiate with the moderates of former Prime Minister Lokke Rasmussen a transversal Executive of consensus, as the current president has been promising Frederiksen throughout the campaign.
Around 2:30 a.m. (local time) the Prime Minister of Denmark arrived at Christiansborg, the presidential palace, supported by a tide of Social Democrats, to whom she has confessed that she is “immensely happy and proud”.
During her victory speech, the Danish president addressed Rasmussen in order to form a broad government.
“In my 2019 speech, I thanked Lokke Rasmussen for following my game and responding. Now I hope it can become a collaboration,” Frederiksen said, detailing that this Wednesday he will present the resignation of his current government to Queen Margaret II, according to has picked up the said string.
“The Social Democrats went to the elections to form a broad government. If the majority points to me as a candidate, I will investigate if it can be done. Because that is what will be good for Denmark,” he added.
The general elections are held in advance after the Social Liberal Party – the Social Democrats’ governing partner – forced the prime minister to advance the vote in exchange for not presenting a motion of censure.
The economic management of the country at a convulsive moment for the whole of the old continent due to the war in Ukraine, added to a report contrary to the Executive’s management of the mink crisis, sacrificed by a mutation of the coronavirus, were the main arguments for pressure from government partners.
Thus, Frederiksen finally agreed at the beginning of October to call general elections for this Tuesday, eight months before the current legislature technically expires in which, after the 2019 elections, the Social Democrats reached the government with the support not only of the Social Party Liberal, but also from the Green Left and the leftist Red-Green Alliance.
