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Denmark forms broad coalition government after long negotiations
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Dec 14, 2022 08:04pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Dec 14, 2022 01:00pm |
| Description | COPENHAGEN, Denmark (CN) — Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, leader of Denmark's second-biggest party, the Liberals, told Danish broadcaster DR just a few weeks ago that he had a hard time imagining a broad coalition government when Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen invited him to join political negotiations on a collaboration with the Social Democrats.
When Frederiksen called for national elections in October, she expressed a wish to form a government "across the political center." Her stated goal came in the wake of state investigations into her cabinet´s unconstitutional order to kill all minks in November 2020 due to fear of a new coronavirus mutation. She also faced a looming vote of no confidence from her own party triggered by a plan to establish a national immigration reception center in Rwanda instead of on Danish soil.
Those were just some reasons why Ellemann-Jensen had sworn not to swing his party´s 23 parliamentary seats to side with the Social Democrats.
But on Wednesday, the Liberal party leader stood next to Frederiksen and the leader of a new political party – the Moderates, who hold 16 seats in parliament – to announce a new broad coalition government that will control a total of 89 out of 179 parliamentary seats.
The three-party coalition was formed after what has been the longest political negotiations in recent Danish history, taking 42 days to reach an agreement. Yet it is also the first time since the 1970s that Denmark will have a government with parties from both the Democratic and the Liberal factions. |
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