According to exit polls and partial results, the centre-left bloc led by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of the Social Democratic Party will lose its parliamentary majority.
According to the exit polls, Frederiksen’s party still won the most votes with 23%, while the Liberal Party came in second with 13%.
However, none of the blocs will win a majority: according to partial results, when 91% of the votes are counted, the “red” bloc will receive 86 seats in parliament out of 179, and the “blue” bloc, which unites conservative parties and right-wing radicals, 75.
Mette Frederiksen during the election campaign filed an appeal the opposition is considering setting up a unity government given uncertain times – Denmark has felt closer to Russia’s war in Ukraine over suspicions of sabotaging a gas pipeline between Russia and Germany that runs through its territorial waters. But the opposition parties showed little interest, preferring to remain an alternative to the head of government.
The government, which broke with the traditional division between left and right, will be the first in more than four decades and will significantly change the country’s political landscape, Reuters said.
With blocs without a majority, the Moderate Party, with 16 deputies according to partial results, must decide with whom to form a coalition or which minority government to support. The party is led by former Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, who created it after he lost an election to Frederiksen in 2019 while a Liberal candidate.
This election was prompted by the decision of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen shoot all mink (or mink) for breeding in the country (about 15 million) due to covid-19 (at the time it was feared that the virus infecting animals could lead to new variants that, when transmitted to humans, could bypass the protection provided by vaccines ). The parliamentary commission called this decision illegal, but stated that the head of government did not intentionally violate the law.
