The last time Denmark formed a government that crossed the right-left divide was almost 30 years ago.
11:10am•Updated 12:17pm
In Denmark, government negotiator and prime minister of the previous government Mette Frederiksen has been able to assemble a rare blue-red government. Frederiksen has announced the birth of the government agreement by the queen To Margaret.
The government negotiations took an exceptionally long time in Danish terms, 43 days. Danish radio has had a counter on its website that has counted the time the country has been without a government.
The result is a special board composition. The largest party, the Social Democrats led by Frederiksen, gets the position of prime minister. Both government partners represent the Danish bourgeois bloc.
Liberal Venstre party and its chairman Jakob Ellemann-Jensen declared the Social Democrats as their main opponent in their election campaign. A new Moderate party (Danish: Moderaterne) will also enter the government, whose leader has previously worked in Venstre Lars Løkke Rasmussen. He has said that he wants to be a “bridge” between the right and the left.
Future Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has stated that the future government will have to make a lot of compromises, but they will be made so that Denmark can get out of an exceptionally difficult situation. Denmark is also suffering from a sharp rise in prices, which is largely due to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
Denmark last had a government that crossed the right-left divide in 1993. That government was also the country’s last majority government, says Danish Radio DR (switch to another service).
The extreme right has recently had a great influence on Danish politics. In the November elections, the three right-wing political parties suffered a defeat and received only 14.4 percent of the votes.
Source: AFP