In her post-election speech, Frederiksen declared that she is ready to continue leading the country. She noted that negotiations about the government will not be easy.
Left groups, including the prime minister’s Social Democracy, won 84 seats, right-wing parties have 77 seats and centrists 14 seats. The remaining four seats in the parliament belong to Greenland and the Faroe Islands, which are autonomous parts of the Kingdom of Denmark.
The Social Democracy won by a considerable margin, receiving 21.9 percent of the vote. However, this result was 5.6 percentage points worse than the election in 2022. The TV2 station called the result of the Social Democracy historically bad, because the party has not received so few votes since the parliamentary elections in 1903, when it received 21 percent.
With a gap of about ten percentage points, the Socialist People’s Party finished in second place behind the Social Democrats with 11.6 percent of the vote. Third is the center-right Liberal Party led by Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen with 10.1 percent of the vote. Compared to the previous elections, this party lost over three percentage points, while the Socialist People’s Party, on the other hand, improved by 3.3 percentage points.
Prime Minister Frederiksen, who has been in power since 2019, called the election in February, several months earlier than it had to be. According to analysts, this was apparently done in the hope that her decisive stance in the dispute over the Danish autonomous territory of Greenland, which US President Donald Trump would like to acquire under American administration, will help her with the voters.
The British BBC wrote that in Denmark, a member country of the European Union and NATO, there is a large consensus on foreign policy, and the election campaign was dominated by domestic issues such as the state of the Danish economy and the cost of living. For example, Frederiksen proposed a property tax of 0.5 percent for the 20,000 richest Danes. The topics of the pre-election debates were also the high level of pesticide pollution of drinking water due to pig farming and the future of agriculture.
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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on election day
