{"id":247319,"date":"2026-03-25T18:30:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=247319"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:55:44","slug":"denmarks-pm-resigns-after-election-loss-eyes-return-through-coalition-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/247319\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark\u2019s PM resigns after election loss, eyes return through coalition talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Denmark&rsquo;s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen handed in her coalition government&rsquo;s resignation on Wednesday after suffering a &zwnj;massive election defeat, but could still emerge as leader of a new cabinet in the coming weeks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/denmarks-frederiksen-faces-tough-coalition-talks-remain-prime-minister-2026-03-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>Experts note that such election results are linked to voter dissatisfaction, as the government did not fulfill its economic promises.<\/p>\n<p>Frederiksen&rsquo;s Social Democratic Party had its worst &#8203;election since 1903 on Tuesday, winning just 38 seats in the 179-seat parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the setback, the Social Democrats remained Denmark&rsquo;s biggest party with 21.9% support, meaning Frederiksen is widely seen as having a good shot at returning for a third term as prime minister, albeit following tough and lengthy coalition talks.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark&rsquo;s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen handed in her coalition government&rsquo;s resignation on Wednesday after suffering a &zwnj;massive election defeat, but could still emerge as leader of a new cabinet in the coming weeks, Reuters writes. Experts note that such election results are linked to voter dissatisfaction, as the government did not fulfill its economic promises. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":247151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247320,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247319\/revisions\/247320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}