Danish election heading toward nail-biting finish
The HinduPrime Minister Mette Fredriksen’s Social Democrats won the most votes in Denmark’s election on November 1 but it was unclear whether the center-left bloc that backs her government in Parliament would retain its majority. The Social Democrats remained Denmark's top party with 28% support, but it remained unclear late Tuesday whether the center-left bloc would reach the 90 seats needed for a majority in the 179-seat Parliament. A two-time government leader who lost the 2019 election to Ms. Frederiksen and abandoned the center-right Liberal party following an internal power struggle, Løkke Rasmussen, wouldn't say whom he would back as the next prime minister or whether he saw that role for himself. “Who is going to sit at the end of the table we do not know.” Before the election, Ms. Frederiksen, 44, floated the idea of a broader alliance that would also include opposition parties, but was rebuffed by opposition leaders Jakob Ellemann-Jensen of the Liberals and Søren Pape Poulsen of the Conservatives, who both ran as candidates for prime minister in a center-right government.
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