More than 4 million Danes will go to the polls on Tuesday (1st) to elect the country’s new prime minister. Three candidates are favourites, including current Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.
According to the latest poll released Monday night (1) by the Megafon institute, Mette Frederiksen of the centre-left Social Democratic party leads the voters’ choice. The second is Jakob Ellemann, who leads the centre-right Liberal party. Third place is the right-wing candidate from the Conservative party, Søren Pape. To form a government, the elected candidate must have 90 seats in parliament, which polls show that no candidate should win.
That’s why, in a recent debate on a Danish television channel on Monday night, Mette Frederiksen said that if he is re-elected, he will form a cooperative government with Lars Løkke, also candidate and former Danish Prime Minister, Moderate Party leader. The party, which is expected to get 15 seats in the parliament in today’s election, guarantees the manageability of Mette Frederiksen.
Animal sacrifice as prevention
Parliamentary elections in Denmark were scheduled for 2023. But it is due to the decline in popularity of the prime minister that during the pandemic determined the eradication of all captive mink farming in the country. It was taken to protect the population from a variant of Covid-19, an act that was deemed illegal by the Scandinavian country’s parliament and caused Mette Frederiksen to receive a threat of a vote of no confidence, and was forced with it. to call a general election.
While voting is not mandatory in Denmark, the country has a turnout of 80%. This Tuesday (1st), in addition to the new prime minister, the 179 members of the Danish parliament will be elected, with four of these seats evenly distributed between the Greenland and Faroe Islands autonomous regions.
source: Noticias
