Denmark's right-wing defence minister to lead government formation talks
The move follows 45 days of stalled coalition talks after the March election, with the king backing a centre-right bid after a key centrist withdrew support.
- Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's attempt to form a new government coalition failed when a key partner withdrew from the negotiations.
- Denmark's King Frederik has now asked Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen to explore the formation of a potential centre-right government.
- Frederiksen's Social Democrats won 38 seats in the 179-seat parliament in the March election, down from 50 in 2022, marking their worst result since 1903.
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As government negotiations start anew, the Danish People's Party is trying to breathe life into a pure blue minority government. But according to election researcher Rune Stubager, the plan runs into one crucial problem: Lars Løkke Rasmussen.
In the previous round, Frederiksen received a mandate to form a government, but failed.
Denmark's Prime Minister Frederiksen has not succeeded in forming a coalition capable of majority voting. Now her former alliance partner Poulsen has been commissioned to form a government.
The negotiations to form a government, led by the electoral winner Mette Frederiksen, have been on the verge of failure and her third term as prime minister has been on the verge of staying in mere utopia.All because Lars Løkke Rasmussen—who, with her party, the Moderates, did not pass the sixth place in the last Danish elections—has returned to the negotiating table after almost two weeks of absence. Politologist Carolin Hjort Rapp of the Unive…
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