- Danes went to the polls on Tuesday (1 November) 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 kingmaker with his new party, the Moderates, as neither the ruling left nor the right-wing opposition looks set to win a majority.
- The vote comes as high energy prices and the highest inflation in four decades eat into household economies, and only a month after the sabotage of two pipelines carrying gas from Russia to Germany through Danish waters fuelled an unprecedented sense of insecurity among Danes.
Danes to cast verdict on Social Democrats as new crises loom
