Denmark’s current prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, on Friday initiated contacts to form a new government in the country after the left-wing coalition she leads won the elections held on Tuesday.
She has thus kicked off the negotiations, which will take place over a period of time during which she plans to invite all the parties involved to her residence in Copenhagen, the capital.
Frederiksen met this morning with Jakov Ellemann-Jensen, chairman of the liberal-conservative Venstre-Danish Liberal Party, according to information from radio station DR.
The Social Democratic leader is scheduled to hold meetings with leaders of other parties during the day this Friday at Marienborg, the official residence of the Danish head of state, which is located in the north of Copenhagen.
The election results have again given a clear victory to the Social Democratic Party, ahead of the Venstre and the moderates of former Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, who was at the head of the Executive between 2015 and 2019. The left-wing bloc has managed to maintain its absolute majority, albeit by a slim margin.
However, Frederiksen is now seeking to form a broader and more stable center government, as she promised during the election campaign, even though this is unusual for Danish politics. She has stressed that the people have expressed through the ballot box their desire for the Parliament to work together.
In this sense, she stressed that she considers it a «good opportunity» for the country and stressed that Denmark «is in an exceptional situation». «This requires things to be done differently, which means making new compromises,» he concluded.
