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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Nikolaj Skydsgaard

Danes vote in battle for centre ground as political, economic crises loom

Sofie Carsten Nielsen from Danish Social Liberal Party votes during the general election at Nursing Home Soelund in Copenhagen, Denmark November 1, 2022. Ritzau Scanpix/Emil Helms via REUTERS

Danes went the polls on Tuesday with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen hoping for a vote of confidence in her handling of the pandemic and for her leadership to overcome soaring inflation and geopolitical insecurity.

The election has turned into a battle for centrist voters, with former prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen likely to become a king-maker with his new party, the Moderates, as neither the ruling left nor the right-wing opposition looks set to win a majority.

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