After the votes were counted late last night Thursday, Liberal Party leader Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen said he would try to form a government even though his party suffered a disastrous election, losing 12 seats. To do so, he will need to make big concessions to the populist Danish Peoples\u2019 Party (DF), which won 37 seats to become the biggest party on the right. This is according to Seven59.dk and other media.<\/p>\n
The \u2018blue bloc\u2019 won 90 seats in parliament against 85 seats for the coalition and its support parties, although all four seats from the Faroe Islands and Greenland went to the government, giving the new, centre-right alliance a narrow 90-89 majority.<\/p>\n
Despite losing power, the Social Democrats regained their spot as the country\u2019s biggest party, with 47 seats. Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt stepped down as Social Democrat leader early Friday morning.<\/p>\n
As the head of the third-largest party in parliament, Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen, who led Denmark as Prime Minister from 2009 to 2011, gave a victory speech at 01:30 early Friday morning when he said:<\/p>\n
“Four years ago, we returned the keys to the Prime Minister\u2019s office. I said that time that they were only a loan. Tonight we have been given an opportunity, but only an opportunity, to take leadership in Denmark. We take that upon ourselves and I take that upon myself.” <\/p>\n
“What I offer today is to put myself at the head of a government.”<\/p>\n
Given the gains of the Danish People’s Party, the leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl would not affirm his campaign stance that his party would remain outside government.<\/p>\n
“What we have said before the election is also what we will follow after the election \u2013 that we will be where the political influence is greatest,” he said.<\/p>\n
“If that is in a government, then that is where we will be. If it is outside of the government, then that is where we will be. That is what drives us, not cabinet positions.”<\/p>\n
The final results, in seats, were as follows:<\/p>\n
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\nThe Social Democrats (A) \u2013 47
\nSocial Liberals (B) \u2013 8
\nSocialist People\u2019s party (F) \u2013 7
\nRed-Green Alliance (\u00d8) \u2013 14
\nThe Alternative (\u00c5) \u20139<\/p>\n
\nVenstre (V) \u2013 34
\nDanish People\u2019s party (O) \u2013 37
\nThe Liberal Alliance (I) \u2013 13
\nThe Conservative People\u2019s party (C) \u2013 6<\/p>\n