Denmark Moves to the Left as Nationalists Suffer Deep Losses
- 41-year-old Frederiksen set to become next prime minister
- Center-right government of Lokke Rasmussen has been ousted
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Denmark’s Social Democrats won Wednesday’s election, resulting in a changed political landscape that will bring with it a new left-leaning government led by a 41-year-old woman.
Voters handed the anti-immigrant nationalists their worst drubbing ever in an election, and the result puts Social Democrat leader Mette Frederiksen in line to be Denmark’s youngest prime minister and only the second woman to lead the country’s government.