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Just a couple of months ago she was declaring my PM Carneys speech very popular in Denmark, now she is resigning in a crushing loss. She was anti Trump as I recall.
This is not a good sign for Canada, is it? It may be a sign that Greenlanders want a referendum to join the U.S.
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Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen suffered an election setback as her left-leaning bloc appeared to have fallen short of winning enough votes to form a government, following a campaign clouded by U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland.
Frederiksen’s Social Democrats received the most votes and were seen winning 38 seats in Denmark’s 179-seat parliament, results published early Wednesday showed, compared with 50 seats four years earlier. It reportedly marks the party’s worst election result since 1903.
The left-leaning grouping, or “red bloc,” was seen taking 84 seats, six short of the 90 required for a majority, while the right-leaning group, or “blue bloc,” secured 77 seats.
Denmark’s Frederiksen told supporters in Copenhagen that forming a government would be “difficult” and sought to downplay the decline in her party’s popularity after several external shocks.
“We’ve had to deal with war, we’ve been threatened by the American president and in those almost seven years we’ve gone down 4 percentage points, I think that’s okay,” Frederiksen said, according to Reuters.
This is not a good sign for Canada, is it? It may be a sign that Greenlanders want a referendum to join the U.S.
Denmark’s PM Frederiksen suffers election setback after standing up to Trump over Greenland
Frederiksen had sought to capitalize on popular support after standing up to Trump's push to annex Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory.
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Frederiksen’s Social Democrats received the most votes and were seen winning 38 seats in Denmark’s 179-seat parliament, results published early Wednesday showed, compared with 50 seats four years earlier. It reportedly marks the party’s worst election result since 1903.
The left-leaning grouping, or “red bloc,” was seen taking 84 seats, six short of the 90 required for a majority, while the right-leaning group, or “blue bloc,” secured 77 seats.
Denmark’s Frederiksen told supporters in Copenhagen that forming a government would be “difficult” and sought to downplay the decline in her party’s popularity after several external shocks.
“We’ve had to deal with war, we’ve been threatened by the American president and in those almost seven years we’ve gone down 4 percentage points, I think that’s okay,” Frederiksen said, according to Reuters.
