After virtually 100 years the Social Democrats lose the elections in Copenhagen | EUROtoday

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In regional and municipal elections in Denmark arduous blow for the social democratic celebrationled by premier Mette Fredriksenlower than a yr earlier than the parliamentary elections which should be held by October 2026.

Venstre, the liberal celebrationpresently in coalition with Fredriksen in parliament, has overtaken the Social Democrats within the variety of mayors elected in Denmark.

In the Danish capital, the Social Democrats they misplaced the town they’d ruled since 1938accumulating 12.7% of the votes, far behind the Unity List (red-green formation) which obtained 22.1% of the votes and the Socialist Popular Party, with 17.9%, in response to the official outcomes.

“We lost in Copenhagen, and it’s really a shame” declared mayoral candidate Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil, former minister within the Fredriksen authorities, who left her publish to run to turn into mayor of the Danish capital.

“We decided that if we were going to lose, we would fight until the end, and that’s what we did,” she added, reported by Danish public service broadcaster, DR. Negotiations are actually going down between the left-wing events, to type a coalition inside the Copenhagen frequent council through which the Social Democrats weren’t invited to take part.