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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

Centre-left tipped to lose Copenhagen for first time in electoral history

The Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, speaks to the media after the opening of the Danish parliament Folketing at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, Denmark
The Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has increasingly used anti-elite rhetoric that may have alienated urban voters. Photograph: Mads Claus Rasmussen/EPA

The centre-left could lose control of Copenhagen for the first time in the city’s electoral history as residents of the Danish capital go to the polls amid growing disillusionment with the divisive politics of the prime minister, Mette Frederiksen.

Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have ruled the city for more than 100 years - producing every lord mayor that the municipality has had since the current system was introduced in 1938.

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