The Social Democrat Mette Frederiksen wins the elections and will continue to lead the Danish Government

The current prime minister has won 87 seats and 49 percent of the vote The North Atlantic territories such as Greenland or the Faroe Islands have given victory to the left The left-wing coalition led by the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, has won the elections held this Tuesday in the country with 87 seats and more than 49 percent of the votes, which will allow the president to remain in government with an absolute majority. After the exit polls predicted that neither the leftist bloc nor the The right-wing parties were going to have the possibility of reaching a majority, the final count of the votes in the North Atlantic territories such as Greenland or the Faroe Islands have given victory to the left, according to the public channel TV2. The social democratic party has won two seats more than in the previous elections, when it obtained 48, thus obtaining more than double the seats of the second most voted party in the country , the conservative Venstre, which has gone from 43 to 23 seats. The rest of the left-wing coalition parties have managed to obtain 37 seats, which added to the Social Democratic seats, make a total of 87, three seats below the majority absolute, which is at 90. Negotiation with the moderates However, having won more seats than the right-wing bloc, the left will be able to negotiate with the moderates of former Prime Minister Lokke Rasmussen a transversal Executive of consensus, as Frederiksen has been promising the current president throughout the campaign. Around 2:30 a.m. (local time) the Prime Minister of Denmark has arrived at Christiansborg, the presidential palace, supported by a tide of Social Democrats, to whom she has confessed to being “immensely happy and proud”. During her victory speech, the Danish president addressed Rasmussen in the interest of forming a comprehensive government. “In my 2019 speech, I thanked Lokke Rasmussen for playing along and responding. Now I hope it can become a collaboration,” she said. Said Frederiksen, detailing that this Wednesday he will present to Queen Margaret II the resignation of his current Government, according to the aforementioned chain. “The Social Democrats went to the elections to form a broad government. If the majority points to me as a candidate, I will investigate if it can be done. Because that is what will be good for Denmark”, he added. Early elections The general elections are held early after the Social Liberal Party – the Social Democrats’ governing partner – forced the prime minister advance the vote in exchange for not presenting a motion of censure. The economic management of the country at a convulsive moment for the whole of the old continent due to the war in Ukraine, added to a report contrary to the Executive’s management of the mink crisis, sacrificed by a mutation of the coronavirus, were the main arguments for pressure from government partners. Thus, Frederiksen finally agreed in early October to call general elections for this Tuesday, eight months before the current legislature technically expires in which, after the 2019 elections, the Social Democrats reached the government with the support not only of the Social Liberal Party, but also of the Green Left and the leftist Red-Green Alliance.