THE GUARDIAN: Denmark’s king asks Troels Lund Poulsen to form government after PM struggles to gather support
The king of Denmark has asked a centre-right politician to try to form a new government after the prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has failed to put together a ruling coalition.
The announcement on Friday night shook the political establishment as Frederiksen has been a staple of Danish politics for decades. Her left-leaning party, the Social Democrats, won the plurality of votes in parliamentary elections in March.
But despite winning the most votes, it was the Social Democrats’ worst electoral showing since 1903 and no party won a majority. » | William Christou | Saturday, May 9, 2026
