LA leader quits
Anders Samuelsen resigned as Liberal Alliance (LA) leader yesterday following Wednesday’s disastrous election result when LA was one of the biggest losers, seeing its seats tally fall from 13 to four. In an…
MoreElection aftermath
LA leadership battle / PornHub MP loses seat / Klaus Riskær Pedersen dissolves party / Løkke’s ‘wonderboy’ / Economist predicts no big change to economic policy…. Anders Samuelsen’s resignation as Liberal Alliance leader…
MoreElection 2019: Denmark turns left
41-year-old Mette Frederiksen is set to become Denmark’s youngest ever prime minister after the centre-left bloc of parties won a 91-75 majority in Wednesday’s election. The Social Democrat leader told her jubilant supporters at…
MoreFrederiksen aims for Social Democrat-only government
‘Prime Minister in waiting’ Mette Frederiksen last night repeated her intention to form a minority, Social Democrat-only government rather than a coalition with her allies on the left. She vowed to govern on…
MoreDPP leader after election disaster: I wont abandon ship
It was a disastrous day for the Danish People’s Party who lost 21 seats as support plummeted to 8.7% from 21.1% in the 2015 election. In contrast to some other European countries, where…
MoreFinal tally: Who won, who lost
With 100% of votes counted, the final result of the 2019 general election: Social Democrats: 25.9 % / 48 seats (+1) Liberals (Venstre): 23.4 % / 43 (+9) Danish People’s Party 8.7 %…
MoreForeign Minister loses seat as LA joins DPP’s nosedive
Apart from a new government, the demise of the Danish People’s Party (DPP) and Liberal Alliance (LA) was the election’s biggest story, analysts said last night. The DPP lost 21 seats and LA…
MoreAnti-migrant party wins 4 seats but extremists fail
The anti-Muslim Stram Kurs (Hard Line) failed to win the 2% needed to enter Parliament but the hard-line New Conservatives won four seats after getting 2.4% of the votes. Two other fringe parties,…
MoreElection Day: Last minute shock as Løkke drops coalition partners
Faced with a resounding defeat today Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has declared the three-year old Liberal/Conservative/ Liberal Alliance coalition ‘dead and buried’ and will now push for a ‘straight down the middle’…
MoreElection Day: Opposition leader rejects unity government
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s new ambition for an across the centre coalition was immediately dismissed by opposition leader Mette Frederiksen who said her aim remains the same – a minority, Social Democrat-only…
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