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"Now we are on target," said the Social Democratic party leader Mette Frederiksen on the night of Wednesday alongside the other party leaders involved. Their party wants to govern accordingly with a purely social-democratic minority government, which is supported by the other parties of the so-called red bloc. The 41-year-old becomes the youngest Prime Minister in the history of the country.
Frederiksen's Social Democrats were the strongest force in the Danish parliamentary election on 5 June, they won 25.9 percent of the vote. The left-wing camp – the red bloc – will in future have a narrow absolute majority in parliament. The left camp won a total of 91 of the 179 parliamentary seats. The Socialist People's Party scored particularly strong gains, especially for green issues. It came to 7.7 percent, after 4.2 percent in the last elections in 2015.
Cooperation with red block
Since then, the election winners have negotiated with the Socialist People's Party (SF), the Unity List and the Social Liberal Radical Venstre (RV) about a possible cooperation. Frederiksen had already announced in the election campaign to aim for a minority government that wants to cooperate on most issues with the red bloc. In the migration, however, she wants to rely on the support of the rival conservative-liberal camp.
Already six days ago, the Social Democrats had agreed with the Socialist People's Party and the Unity List ambitious climate targets for the coming years. According to this, the country's greenhouse gas emissions are to be reduced by 70 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels.
In early June, Queen Margrethe II commissioned Frederiksen to form a government. "I want to lead a government that can work with a large number of parties," she said after her meeting with the Queen.
Setback for liberals
The previous head of government Lars Lökke Rasmussen had cleared the way for the government takeover by Frederiksen with his resignation after the parliamentary election. Rasmussen's liberals were able to increase by just under four percentage points. With 23.4 percent, the party ended up only in second place. Liberals have been with the government for a total of 14 years over the past 18 years.
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This time, the right-wing camp only had 75 seats in total. This is mainly due to the massive loss of votes of the right-wing populist Danish People's Party, which scored only 8.7 percent. In 2015, it had become the second largest party with 21.1 and subsequently supported Rasmussen's right-wing minority coalition.
Hard course in migration policy
Since 2001, the People's Party has taken a key position in Danish politics with its anti-immigrant issues. Meanwhile, their tough immigration policy is shared by virtually all parties – including the Social Democrats. In the election campaign Frederiksen focused primarily on climate policy and social issues. So she announced plans to reduce budget cuts in health and education.
The election was also attended by two new far-right parties. While the New Right enters parliament with 2.3 percent of the vote, the party Harte Linie failed at the two percent hurdle. Voter turnout, traditionally very high in Denmark, was 84.5 percent.
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