Before the election, opinion polls indicated that the Social Democrats would lose voters and that parties on the left – where the left-wing Unity Party looked set to become the largest – would be able to form their own majority.
Even though the parties to the left of the Social Democrats did not manage to form a majority of their own, it is now clear that the Socialist People's Party will take over the post of Lord Mayor of Copenhagen.
"We have made history at the City Hall," she says, according to Danish media.
Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil, the Social Democrats' candidate for the position of Lord Mayor, admitted defeat earlier this morning.
Now we're losing Copenhagen. I find that incredibly annoying.
