It will be joined by Denmark’s two largest political factions (the center-left Social Democrats and the center-right Liberals) and the new centrist Moderate party, announced Mete Frederiksen, who will remain in the prime minister’s office.
After six weeks of intense negotiations following the parliamentary elections, Denmark will be governed by a coalition the likes of which the Nordic country has not seen in four decades.
It will be joined by Denmark’s two largest political factions (the center-left Social Democrats and the center-right Liberals) and the new centrist Moderate party, announced Mete Frederiksen, who will remain in the prime minister’s office.
Winner of the November 1 elections, the head of the Social Democrats will present today the “rough lines” of the government agreement, while the composition of the government being formed is expected to be announced tomorrow Thursday.
“I have believed for a long time that this is what our country needs. Both because of the crises we face – inflation, war in Europe – and because we have to make decisions that force us to look at things differently,” Frederiksen told reporters after informing Queen Margaret II of the agreement.
For the new government, “there are many compromises, but above all great ambitions”, emphasized the leader of the Social Democrats, who put aside differences with the Liberals – a historical opponent of the Social Democrats – and secured the support of the Moderates, a recently created centrist party by former Prime Minister Lars Locke Rasmussen.
“Mette Frederiksen is making a sharp turn to the right,” commented Mai Vilandsen, head of the Red-Green Alliance that emerged from a merger of three left-wing parties.
The coalition government will have the support of 89 of parliament’s 179 members, but it is also expected to count on the support of elected MPs from Greenland and the Faroe Islands to limit problems in its work.
“No one believed that such a government could be formed,” Lund University political science professor Robert Clemmensen told AFP. “We are in uncharted waters,” he observed, recalling that the last coalition government of Social Democrats and Liberals (1978-79) lasted just nine months.
For Clemensen, the big winner of this deal is former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmunsen, who campaigned for tax cuts, restructuring the public sector (including hospitals) and tougher immigration policy changes.
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