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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Nikolaj Skydsgaard and Stine Jacobsen

Denmark's PM calls election, seeks broad coalition amid security tensions

FILE PHOTO: Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen speaks to the press after her opening speech at the opening of Folketing at Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark October 4 ,2022. Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERS

Denmark's centre-left Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Wednesday called a general election for Nov. 1 and said she would seek to form a broad coalition reaching across political divides at a time of international uncertainty.

Denmark is currently the focal point of a global political crisis after two pipelines carrying gas from Russia to Europe via the Baltic Sea last week suffered damage in what world leaders have called an act of sabotage.

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