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Danes vote for their first female prime minister
Far right’s 10-year grip on government has ended as Danes vote in a centre-left coalition led by Helle Thorning-Schmidt
The far right’s 10-year grip on Denmark’s government has ended as the Danes voted for their first female prime minister, handing government to a centre-left coalition. The close general election gave victory to the social democrats, closing a decade of rightwing ascendancy during which a minority government of liberals and conservatives was kept in power by parliamentary support from the europhobic, Muslim-baiting Danish People’s party. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the social democrat leader and daughter-in-law of Neil and Glenys Kinnock, salvaged her political career by ousting the liberal prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen’s coalition at her second attempt. She is expected to form a government with two other centre-left parties.
