Denmark’s acting prime minister, social democrat Mette Frederiksen, announced a agreement to form a Center-left minority governmentafter a few record negotiations in the history of this country.
Frederiksenwhich will govern third consecutive termwill lead an Executive together with the Popular Socialist Partyhe centrist The Moderates and the Liberal Radical Partywhich has 82 of the 179 seats in Parliament, but would have the external backup of at least the red-green Unitary Listenough to have a majority in the House.
“I have informed him that, after long negotiations, a government can be formed,” said Frederiksen after visiting Odense (center) rey Federico X on the royal ship Dannebrog, on which he takes his traditional summer cruise along the Danish coast these days. The social democratic leader did not want to specify the contents of the agreement, which she will report on shortly, and announced that the new Government will be presented this Wednesday.
The Moderates, referee
The announcement arrives more than two months later of the legislative elections on March 24, and by far surpassing the previous record of 42 days of negotiations in 2022; and two previous failed attempts to agree on a government, one by Frederiksen and the other by the leader of the Liberal Party, Troels Lund Poulsen.
He complex y fragmented political landscape -with up twelve parties with parliamentary representation and the fact that no political bloc has a majority – has made negotiations difficult, in which The Moderates have acted as refereefinally opting to support a center-left Executive.
He Social Democratic Party He was the most voted in the most recent elections with 21.9%, although he achieved the worst result in a century; ahead of the Popular Socialist Party, with 11.5%, and the Liberal Party, with 10.2%, the worst figures in its history.
After a first term governing in a minority, with the support of the rest of the left bloc, Frederiksen headed a Government between 2022 and 2026 with the Liberal Party and the Moderates, a unprecedented formula in the danish politicsbut which now does not have the necessary parliamentary support.
