COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen revealed Thursday her decision to schedule parliamentary elections for March 24 in the Scandinavian nation.
The upcoming vote will decide the makeup of Denmark’s Folketing, the country’s parliament, for the following four-year period. The legislative body contains 179 members total — with 175 positions allocated to representatives from Denmark proper, while Greenland and the Faroe Islands, both semi-autonomous regions within the kingdom, each receive two seats.
While Denmark’s constitution requires parliamentary elections at minimum once every four years, the prime minister holds the authority to schedule them earlier. The most recent election took place November 1, 2022, leading to an unusual three-party governing alliance that spans both sides of the political spectrum.
Since mid-2019, Frederiksen, who belongs to the center-left Social Democratic party, has served as Denmark’s leader. Her current administration includes partnerships with Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen’s Liberal Party and the centrist Moderate party headed by Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, who previously held the prime minister position.
