Friday, September 16, 2011

Denmark: victory for the left to legislative

The head of the Danish Social Democrats, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, was to begin Friday for negotiations on forming a government after the victory the day before the "Red Block", the leftist coalition, the parliamentary elections.

Prime Minister-designate, Ms Thorning-Schmidt, 44, will become the first woman to lead the Danish government. His coalition won a narrow majority in Parliament Thursday by winning 92 seats out of a total of 179. "We did it. We wrote history," she said Thursday night his supporters.

The victory of the "Red Block" ends 10 years of center-right government. The Liberal Party of outgoing Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, recorded a gain of one seat, with 47 elected and remains the leading political force in Parliament, but its partners Conservatives lost ten deputies. The Danish People's Party, anti-immigration training that supported the outgoing parliament, fell on his side of three seats, with 22 elected.

Rasmussen Friday presented his resignation to Queen Margrethe II. Ms Thorning-Schmidt is now developing a program of government, while parties in his coalition, which includes environmentalists, social democrats and social liberals, do not agree on fiscal and budgetary policy to be implemented.

"What we must begin to do is take control of the economy," she said Friday at the Danish channel TV2. She added that she wanted his government to be in place when the new Parliament will meet on October 4.


She had to begin negotiations Friday with the Social Liberals, centrist, and the Socialist Party of the people.

The main difficulty for Ms Thorning-Schmidt will live to the government the owner of the Social Liberals, Margrethe Vestager, and the head of the Socialist Peoples Party, Villy Sövndahl. Ms. Vestager objects to the proposed Ms Thorning-Schmidt to raise taxes for the rich and approved the government's plan to phase out the early retirement scheme.

Ms Thorning-Schmidt is not expected to propose ministerial portfolio in the Red-Green Alliance, a coalition of communists and environmentalists that has tripled its number of elected officials by obtaining 12 seats. However, it can count on the support of this training in Parliament.

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