Overview
- King Frederik X tapped Troels Lund Poulsen to lead coalition talks Friday evening after a second round of party consultations.
- The shift followed Lars Løkke Rasmussen ending talks with Mette Frederiksen and backing Poulsen to form a government.
- Frederiksen’s Social Democrats fell to 38 seats in March, the party’s worst result since 1903, which weakened her leverage in talks.
- Poulsen is expected to test a center-right alliance, though no bloc holds a clear majority in the 179-seat Folketing.
- In Denmark’s “Königsrunde” process, parties tell the monarch whom they back, and the figure with the broadest support gets the first try at forming a cabinet, with more rounds possible if talks fail.