COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Social Democrat Mette Frederiksen is set to begin a third term as Denmark’s prime minister, leading a center‑left coalition of four parties after two months of negotiations. Besides Frederiksen’s own party, the new government will include the centrist Moderate party of outgoing Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the Green Left (SF) and the Danish Social Liberal Party, the Danish Royal House said in a statement Monday. It will be a government working for “the people of Denmark, for the generations to come and for the animals,” Frederiksen said Monday night. Frederiksen had called an early election in February, apparently hoping her party would receive a boost from her straight-talking image in the standoff with U.S. President Donald Trump over the future of the kingdom’s semiautonomous territory of Greenland.
Neither left-leaning nor right-leaning blocs won a majority in Parliament after the March vote. Denmark’s system of proportional representation typically produces coalition governments that are traditionally made up of several parties from either left or right.
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Frederiksen’s ruling coalition was created after two failed attempts to form a government, one by Frederiksen and another by former Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen, who had sought to form a center-right government. The new government’s priorities will be presented Tuesday with the names of new ministers announced Wednesday.
