{"id":448617,"date":"2026-03-25T11:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/03\/25\/frederiksen-vince-male-le-elezioni-in-danimarca-la-coalizione-di-governo-verso-un-cambio-di-colore\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T12:19:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:19:01","slug":"frederiksen-narrowly-wins-danish-vote-with-governing-coalition-set-for-a-political-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/03\/25\/frederiksen-narrowly-wins-danish-vote-with-governing-coalition-set-for-a-political-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Frederiksen narrowly wins Danish vote with governing coalition set for a political shift"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen<\/strong>\u2019s Social Democratic Party has won the parliamentary elections in Denmark, despite a slump in support compared to the 2022 elections and the worst result in its history<\/strong>. Neither the left-wing \u2018red bloc\u2019 nor the right-wing \u2018blue bloc\u2019 managed to reach the majority<\/a>. With 21.9 per cent of the vote, Frederiksen remains in power, but the ruling centre-right coalition is on its way out. <\/p>\n

The early elections<\/a>, called by Frederiksen to capitalise on the handling of tensions with the United States over Greenland, confirmed the deep fragmentation of the Danish political landscape. The Social Democrats lost more than 5 percentage points compared to 2022, yet still came first among the 12 parties in the running. Even the allies of the unprecedented governing coalition \u2013 the first outside the traditional \u2018blocs\u2019 \u2013 lost ground<\/strong>: the liberal-conservative Venstre secured only 10.1 per cent, whilst the centrist Moderates obtained 7.8 per cent. The green left Socialist People\u2019s Party came second, with around 11.6 per cent of the vote. The conservatives of the Liberal Alliance reached 9.7 per cent, closely followed by the Danish People\u2019s Party, which saw a sharp rise to 9 per cent. <\/p>\n

The \u2018red bloc\u2019, comprising the Social Democrats and left-wing parties, has won 84 seats. The right-wing bloc has won 77. Neither has reached the 90 seats required to secure a majority in the Copenhagen Parliament. It will be up to the king to grant an exploratory mandate to one of the party leaders. In all likelihood, the choice will fall on Frederiksen for the third time. Like four years ago, she will not be able to form a government without the Moderates led by the current Foreign Minister, Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen<\/strong>, and their 14 seats. Frederiksen has said she is \u201cready to take on\u201d the task once again, admitting that \u201cthere is no indication that it will be easy to form a government.\u201d<\/p>\n

 Difficult negotiations lie ahead, which could yield a new centre-left coalition <\/strong>comprising the Social Democrats, the Socialist People\u2019s Party, the Moderates, and the Danish Social Liberal Party. Together, the four parties hold 82 seats. Rasmussen has, however, invited his two government allies, Frederiksen and the leader of the right-wing Liberals, Troels Lund Poulsen, to join him in the centre. However, Poulsen has ruled out a new partnership with the Social Democrats, reiterating his ambition to lead a right-wing government. On the other hand, the leader of the Socialist People\u2019s Party, Pia Olsen Dyhr, has set out her conditions: \u201cWe must seek to ensure the preservation of the welfare state; we must seek to initiate an ecological transition,\u201d she told the press, warning: \u201cIf we do not succeed, we will not join the government and will remain in opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Social Democrats remain the largest party with 21.9 per cent, their worst result ever. Their government allies, the right-wing Liberals and the Moderates, have also lost ground. In second place is the green left of the Socialist People\u2019s Party<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":448595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[25816,30062,29418],"class_list":["post-448617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-danimarca-at","tag-mette-frederiksen-and"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448618,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448617\/revisions\/448618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}