The Prime Minister saves her majority with difficulty

Having feared during the evening losing her majority, the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, emerged victorious for the time being, with a seat nearby, at the end of the legislative elections that took place on Tuesday 1^Verse November.

At the end of a long election evening, the left-wing bloc had 87 seats, to which three seats from Greenland and the Faroe Islands must be added to form a majority of 90, of the 179 seats in the Danish parliament.

In power for four years, the Social Democrats alone won 50 seats, increasing their 2019 score by 1.6 points with 27.5% of the vote.

” Thanks “Posting a picture of her smiling on Instagram, Ms. Frederiksen wrote, her favorite medium. “I am so happy”she told the press upon her arrival in Parliament with her husband. “We had the best election in more than twenty years.”Then she congratulated herself in front of her frenzied supporters of the victory she had achieved in the kidnapping.

centrist penetration

The right- and far-right bloc comes in second with 72 seats, plus one in the Faroe Islands, and the Center Party of the Moderates brings together 16 seats. Voting intentions two months ago, but this is also a disappointment. Earlier in the evening, the leader of the moderates, former Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, had hoped he could serve as governors. He said he was ready to discuss the government’s participation.

Liberal leader Jakob Elemann Jensen, who missed his goal of becoming prime minister, also said he was ready to talk about cooperation, but expressed doubts. A phase of long negotiations ahead: Mrs. Frederiksen has announced that she will submit her resignation to the Queen on Wednesday, who should ask her to form a new government.

Early poll provoked From “The Mink Crisis” : A pro-government party threatened to bring it down if it did not call an election to ensure voter confidence after the decision, and then declared its illegitimacy, by slaughtering the country’s huge mink herd to fight the coronavirus.

Inflation at its highest level in forty years, and rising energy and health system prices dominated the survey.

Reconfigure at the far right

In a country that has been a champion of strict immigration for more than twenty years, including within Ms. Frederiksen’s Social Democratic Party, the elections were also marked by turmoil within right-wing anti-immigration populist formations, which split into three rival parties.

The long-established Danish People’s Party (DF), which topped 20% just a few years ago, has fallen to around 2.5-2.9%, its worst result since it entered Parliament in 1998. It is a new party founded by the former Hezbollah minister. Immigration, Inger Stojberg, Democrats of Denmark, who will win today with 9.4% and 17 mandates. Since the late 1990s, the far right has had a significant influence on Danish politics.