The Liberal Alliance and the Danish Democrats have pressured Lars Løkke Rasmussen to support a conservative, rather than a red-green, government as a supporting party. Rasmussen has been negotiating for six weeks with acting Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S), who led the talks.
But Løkke says no to this and urges liberal Venstre party leader Troels Lund Poulsen to continue investigating the possibility of forming a center-right government, in which case the Moderates could take a role.
"We can see that he (so far) has not been able or willing to do so. Instead, we have been asked to support a minority government based on far-right politics," Løkke says, according to DR, which notes that plans for a right-wing government thus appear to have foundered.
Løkke has previously said that the party wants to be part of the government, but the center-right parties instead offered the role of supporting party in exchange for political influence.
Conservative group leader Mette Abildgaard writes on X that "Someone won over something, and bourgeois-minded people are the big losers tonight."
