Overview
- Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen seeks a third term next week, with polls pointing to the Social Democrats’ weakest result in more than a century yet still leaving her as the favorite to lead the next government.
- Voters’ priorities have shifted to domestic concerns including the cost of living, welfare and inequality debates, immigration controls, and a proposed wealth tax aimed at funding education and social services.
- Trump’s calls to take control of Greenland injected an unusual geopolitical edge to the race, though the dispute has cooled as the United States, Denmark and Greenland move into technical talks on Arctic security.
- Greenlandic candidates vying for two Folketing seats aim to convert the attention into leverage by pushing for a renegotiation of the 1951 U.S.–Denmark defense pact, greater say over sovereignty, coastal surveillance, and economic reforms.
- No bloc is projected to secure a clear majority, positioning the Moderates under Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and the four Greenland and Faroe Islands seats as potential kingmakers in the fragmented parliament.