Danish Social Democrat Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s left-wing bloc came out ahead in Tuesday’s legislative elections, but fell short of a bloc that brings together the right and far right, according to exit polls.
The center, with 16 or 17 seats out of 179 in the Danish Parliament, seems to be the arbiter between the left (85 or 86 seats) and the right and extreme right (73 or 74 seats) according to polls published at the close of the polling stations by the public television stations DR and TV2.
This scenario leaves several hypotheses open for the future, including a re-election of Mette Frederiksen or a new centrist or even right-wing Prime Minister.
But the voices of former Liberal Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s new centrist Moderate party are in a decisive position to provide the necessary votes for a future government.
A vote caused by “the crisis of visions”
His appearance at the polls during the campaign called into question the future of the left and right blocs, with the assumption of a center-left to center-right majority. The four overseas seats, which will give three votes to the left and one to the right, could also prove crucial.
The initial election was motivated by the “mink crisis”: a party that supported the minority government, the Left Radicals, threatened to overthrow it if it did not call elections to ensure voter confidence after the decision, later declared illegal, to massacre the huge herd of mink in the country to fight the coronavirus.
In a country known for being a champion of rigorous migration in Europe (a line drawn left as well as right), the campaign had been dominated by inflation at its highest level in 40 years, as well as by the Health.
Source: BFM TV
