COPENHAGEN: Social Democrat Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is the favorite to lead Denmark after Tuesday’s general election, but the leaders of the two other parties in her coalition are hoping to stop her from a third term.
Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen from the liberal Venstre party could emerge as a consensus figure, as could Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen of the center-right Moderates.
- Mette Frederiksen -
Frederiksen embodies the revamped Social Democrats, committed to a hard line on migration to defend the country’s cherished welfare state.
The 48-year-old has been an MP since the age of 24 and took over as the leader of Denmark’s biggest political party in 2015 after the country’s first female prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, stepped down following an election loss.
