Election in Denmark

Latest major poll points to Danish election jitters – Løkke can decide

It will be even between the right and left blocs in Tuesday's Danish parliamentary election – and Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, leader of the center-right Moderate party, gets a dream role as a balance-maker. This is according to Verian's large voter survey, the last one before election day, writes Berlingske.

- This poll from Verian has historically proven to be very accurate. We can expect an election result that is very close to this, says Kasper Møller Hansen, professor of political science at the University of Copenhagen.

According to the poll, the left bloc will get 86 seats and the right bloc 77. The Moderates will get twelve seats and can therefore decide which political direction the country will take.

Løkke is aware of his important role. In an interview with Politiken earlier today, he said he wants the probe assignment – ​​even though he does not see himself as a candidate for prime minister.

Frederiksen: Just say you want to govern, Løkke

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen wants the exploratory mission in the formation of the government, but at the same time says that he does not see himself as a candidate for prime minister. His Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen finds that hard to believe.

– I mostly think it is an expression that he wants to become prime minister again. It is completely legitimate, but I think he should tell the Danes, she says on TV2.

Several of Frederiksen's Social Democratic party colleagues are also raising suspicions that Løkke actually has his eyes on the prime minister's post, according to the channel.

Løkke's party, the Moderates, is currently the smallest party in the governing coalition with the Social Democrats and the Liberal Party.

According to opinion polls, the Moderates are expected to have the decisive role of a wavering party between the left and right blocs after the election. 

The election in Denmark — it matters

• At the end of February, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called a general election for March 24.
• Opinion polls have shown that the left-wing bloc has had the upper hand, but that the Moderates could be the wave-maker.
• The issue of wealth tax has become central to the election debate, with the Social Democrats' proposal to tax wealth over 25 million Danish kroner.
• The Danish security police PET has warned that Russia is likely to carry out influence campaigns ahead of the election. According to an analysis, the USA is also mentioned as a possible influence threat.
• The four mandates from Greenland and the Faroe Islands were considered to be crucial for the formation of a government after the election.