In Denmark, the election ended in an indecisive result that left the Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s future unclear after a campaign that focused on bread-and-butter issues rather than her handling of the crisis over US President Donald Trump’s ambitions toward Greenland.
Official results showed yesterday that Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s centre-left Social Democrats lost ground compared to the last election in 2022, as did her two partners in the outgoing government.
Neither left-leaning nor right-leaning blocs won a majority in parliament. That left experienced Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, a former prime minister, in the role of kingmaker. His centrist Moderate party is in a position to determine whether Frederiksen can serve a third term at the helm of the European Union and NATO country of some 6 million people.
Earlier, Frederiksen warned that any US attempt to take control of Greenland could effectively signal the end of NATO, though tensions have since eased.
The Danish parliament has 179 seats in total, 175 elected from Denmark itself, along with two representatives each from Greenland and the Faroe Islands
