COPENHAGEN (AA) – According to the election exit polls published by TV2, current Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats Party was the party that received the highest number of votes in the elections with 25 percent of the votes.
However, the results showed that in the 14-party elections, the centre-left and right-wing parties did not have the 90 seats in the 179-seat parliament, sufficient to form a government.
On the other hand, it is stated that Prime Minister Frederiksen can maintain his leadership if he receives the support of the Moderaterne Party, which was newly founded by former Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and received about 9 percent of the votes according to exit polls.
In the exit polls broadcast by Danish Radio (DR), the Social Democrats received 23.1 percent of the votes and 42 seats, while the Liberal Party won 24 seats with 13.5 percent of the vote.
The minority Social Democratic government, led by Prime Minister Frederiksen, who took office in June 2019, was at the center of criticism on the grounds that it ordered the killing of millions of healthy minks in order to protect society from the mutation of the virus in the epidemic.
In addition, the early election process in Denmark gained momentum after the Social Liberal Party, one of the government’s centre-left allies, threatened a vote of confidence if Frederiksen did not make a commitment to call early elections.
The fact that no party could obtain a majority for many years due to the fragmented structure in the parliament made it necessary for Denmark to be governed by minority governments and to compromise between parties.
Prime Minister Frederiksen was also running a minority government with the support of left-wing parties.