Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen triggers snap election as her Social Democrats gain momentum over Greenland’s foreign investment tensions. Greenland intensifies scrutiny of U.S. and Chinese investments, proposing a 2026 law to screen foreign ownership in critical sectors. Election outcome could reshape Denmark-Greenland policy balance between economic growth and national security priorities.
MrStrange15 on
Just to get it out of the way: Denmark was gonna have an October election anyway, its simply moved up, which is something the PM can do. Yes, Greenland is obviously part of Frederiksen’s calculation of the timing because it gave her party a boost in the polls, but the government has not fallen over it or anything. There will be continuous unity across all parties on Greenland. The election will not affect that.
Obviously early to say, but expect Frederiksen to still be the PM in April after formation and either with one extra left wing or right wing party supporting the government.
Ps: Bloomberg writes that a new government needs a majority for it in Parliament. This is technically incorrect. We have [negative parliamentarianism](https://www.ft.dk/da/leksikon/Parlamentarisme) in Denmark, so it only needs to not have a majority against it.
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Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen triggers snap election as her Social Democrats gain momentum over Greenland’s foreign investment tensions. Greenland intensifies scrutiny of U.S. and Chinese investments, proposing a 2026 law to screen foreign ownership in critical sectors. Election outcome could reshape Denmark-Greenland policy balance between economic growth and national security priorities.
Just to get it out of the way: Denmark was gonna have an October election anyway, its simply moved up, which is something the PM can do. Yes, Greenland is obviously part of Frederiksen’s calculation of the timing because it gave her party a boost in the polls, but the government has not fallen over it or anything. There will be continuous unity across all parties on Greenland. The election will not affect that.
Obviously early to say, but expect Frederiksen to still be the PM in April after formation and either with one extra left wing or right wing party supporting the government.
Edit: For the global poor: https://archive.ph/oKzby
For those interested, these are the most reputable pollsters, [Voxmeter](https://voxmeter.dk/meningsmalinger/) and [Epinion](https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/meningsmaalinger) (last link is to DR, the public broadcaster, who uses Epinion).
Ps: Bloomberg writes that a new government needs a majority for it in Parliament. This is technically incorrect. We have [negative parliamentarianism](https://www.ft.dk/da/leksikon/Parlamentarisme) in Denmark, so it only needs to not have a majority against it.
!ping den