Mette Frederiksen is tasked with forming a government

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is tasked with forming a government, Danish media reports.

Frederiksen is being tasked with "royal investigator", according to a press release from the Danish royal house. This means that she is formally tasked by the king to lead the negotiations on forming a government.

Being appointed royal investigator does not necessarily mean that one will then become prime minister. But historically, that is often the case.

Neither Frederiksen's red bloc nor the blue bloc obtained a majority of their own. Therefore, the negotiations are expected to be difficult and the center-right Moderate party will have an important role as a wavemaker.


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Anyone who thought before Wednesday's party leadership debate that the Danish government negotiations would be difficult should now think again, writes TV2's political editor Morten Nielsen.

“It looks almost impossible right now,” he writes.

At the debate, which was attended by all twelve party leaders, several alternatives for a future Danish government were supported and rejected. S leader Mette Frederiksen wants to see a government that extends from the left to the center party Moderates.

“The most realistic thing is to examine a government that is represented from Franciska and ends with Lars,” she says, referring to Alternativet leader Franciska Rosenkilde and Moderates leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen.

Løkke Rasmussen’s center party has a wave-making role because neither the left nor the right side received the 90 mandates that constitute a majority. Løkke says that nothing concrete will come out of the government issue today.

All he had to say about the next government was that he could imagine cooperating with both the blue and red blocs.

“We have to discuss the political content,” he says, according to TV2.

The parties' proposals will now be presented to the king

The leader of the Social Democrats, Mette Frederiksen, has announced to King Frederik that she and the government will resign after the election results. The announcement was expected and was made in connection with the traditional information meeting between the sitting prime minister and the regent in the morning.

After the party leaders' debate, the next step in the negotiations is a so-called "king's round", where the parties can propose their prime ministerial candidates or someone to lead the government negotiations.

At 1:00 p.m., an afternoon begins where all the parties visit the king to present their proposals for solutions to the government issue. The Social Democrats are first out and at 2:50 p.m., the king will receive the twelfth and final party, the Citizens' Party.

No party obtained a majority of its own, which indicates that the government negotiations will be difficult.