Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has announced that the country will hold early parliamentary elections on March 24.
Voters will determine who will sit in the Danish parliament, the Folketing. Of the 179 seats, 175 are reserved for deputies representing Denmark’s counties. The remaining four mandates are divided between lawmakers from the Kingdom of Denmark’s two autonomous territories, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
“Now it is up to you, the voters, to decide what direction Denmark will take in the next four years. I am looking forward to it,” Mette Frederiksen said on February 26.
General elections are supposed to be held in Denmark at least once every four years, but the current Prime Minister can call them at any time. The country’s last election was in November 2022, resulting in a three-party coalition that overcame a rift between the left and right.
Mette Frederiksen, a center-left social democrat, has been in power since mid-2019. The current government includes the Liberal Party, led by current Defense Minister Troels Lund Pulse, and the centrist Umerennye (Moderates) party, led by Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen.
