The Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, called this Wednesday (5) new elections for the country’s Parliament. She said she will seek to form a broad coalition that spans all political spectrums at a time of international uncertainty.
The call comes in the wake of the leak of two gas pipelines transporting gas from Russia to Europe across the Baltic Sea – Moscow accuses the West of sabotage. “We want a broad government with parties on both sides of the political centerline,” said the center-left prime minister, currently leader of a government formed by the minority in parliament.
“With the difficult times we live in and the difficulties the world is facing, the time has come to test a new form of government,” he added. Despite the words of restraint, Frederiksen was effectively forced to call new elections – because she saw her main ally, the Social Liberal Party, threaten to propose a vote of no confidence in parliament.
Frederiksen, 44, became the youngest head of government in Denmark’s history in 2019. At the time, she vowed to improve welfare services that had been hampered by liberal economic reforms since the beginning of the century.
His government, however, was one of the most chaotic in recent decades – precisely because of the lack of support in Parliament. The elections, scheduled for November 1, will serve as an evaluation of their policies in the face of Covid and the rising inflation of recent months.
During the health crisis, in fact, she was praised by a large part of the population for managing to control the number of cases and deaths and minimize the economic consequences of Covid-19. At the time, she even decreed social isolation in the early stages of the pandemic.
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