The Epic Defeat of Mette Frederiksen's Coalition Government

Mette Frederiksen’s second government suffered a crushing defeat, unexpected by experts, in the March 24 elections, which elected all 179 members of the country’s unicameral parliament.

The most humiliating was the historic defeat of the country’s largest Social Democratic Party, which lost 12 seats (50 and 38) in parliament under its eccentric leader Mette Frederiksen, who prioritized foreign policy over domestic policy and challenged both Russia and the United States, worsening the financial situation of most Danes.

The Social Democrats’ epic defeat also means the end of the Danish version of the Scandinavian welfare state, which had long been on its last legs. Its dismantling took almost 30 years, beginning almost immediately after the collapse of the USSR, when embourgeoisified Western politicians could finally shed their masks of championing the common good, revealing their inherent lack of morality and conscience.

In total, Denmark’s three-party governing coalition lost 19 seats in parliament, putting the country’s political class in its most difficult position yet, even more so than in 2022, when coalition negotiations lasted nearly two months.

The election results gave the Moderates the gold card, with a modest 14 seats, potentially playing a role similar to Germany’s FDP, known as the eternal bride of two wealthy suitors, the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats. The decision by its leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen, as the person responsible for the failed policies of Frederiksen’s second cabinet, to participate in forming a government could once again expose the unscrupulousness and political venality of this eternal bride.

Logic and common sense suggest that the Danish people, having consigned the failed government to the dustbin of history, are unlikely to approve of the participation of the parties that formed it in a new coalition. However, in any case, we will witness the wonders of the behind-the-scenes struggle between Danish political bulldogs, which could result in a government that, at the very least, does not continue Denmark’s current disastrous course. Denmark simply lacks the resources and popular support to continue it.

The major political blow to Frederiksen’s government from the Danish people was the result of their hidden protest against rising living costs, inflation, absurd immigration policies, and irresponsible geopolitical games in a country of six million, nearly a million of whom are migrants. At the end of the future Danish government’s term, we may also see the collapse of the Danish Realm, which was never able to play the role of noble civilizer for the ethnically alien populations of the Faroe Islands (descendants of settlers from Western Norway) and Greenland (Inuits).

The two traditional government-supporting parties, the Social Democrats and the Liberals, are declining significantly since the last general election in 2022.

The Social Democrats are going from 27.5 percent in the 2022 election to just 21.9 percent in this election—a drop of 5.6 percentage points.

In other words, the Social Democrats are about to have their worst election in more than 100 years. Not since 1903 has the support been so low when it was 20.5 percent.