After six weeks of intensive negotiations following the parliamentary elections, Denmark will be governed by a coalition the likes of which the Scandinavian country has not seen for four decades.
It will include Denmark's two largest political parties (the centre-left Social Democrats and the centre-right Liberals) and the new centrist Moderate party, announced Mette Frederiksen, who will remain prime minister.
Winner of the November 1 elections, the Social Democrat leader will present the "broad outlines" of the government agreement on Wednesday, while the composition of the government in formation is expected to be announced on Thursday.
"I have long believed that this is what our country needs. Both because of the crises we are facing - inflation, war in Europe - and because we have to make decisions that force us to look at things differently," Frederiksen told reporters after informing Queen Margaret II of the agreement.
For the new government "there are many compromises, but above all great ambitions," said the Social Democrat leader, who put aside differences with the Liberals - the Social Democrats' historic rival - and secured the support of the Moderates, a centrist party recently formed by former Prime Minister Lars Lokje Rasmussen.
"Mete Frederiksen is making a sharp turn to the right," commented Mai Viladsen, head of the Red-Green Alliance, which resulted from a merger of three left-wing parties.
The governing coalition will be backed by 89 of the 179 members of parliament, and also expects the support of elected MPs from Greenland and the Faroe Islands to limit problems in its work.
[BR][BR]"Nobody thought such a government could be formed," Robert Clemenssen, a professor of political science at Lund University, told Agence France-Presse."
[BR][BR]"Nobody thought such a government could be formed," Robert Clemenssen, a professor of political science at Lund University, told Agence France-Presse. "We are in uncharted waters," he observed, recalling that the last coalition government of Social Democrats and Liberals (1978-79) lasted only nine months.
For Clemenssen, the big winner of this deal is former Prime Minister Lars Loke Rasmussen, who during the election campaign advocated tax cuts, reorganization of the public sector (including hospitals) and changes in immigration policy to the letter.
Source: CNA
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