Someone has to break an election promise for there to be a government, says Stubager, a professor at Aarhus University.
The current government will resign, he notes, and on Wednesday all party leaders will meet with Denmark's King Frederik to indicate which party leader they want assigned to investigate the conditions for a sustainable alternative government.
It is not possible to say what kind of government we will get.
A winner
But one thing is clear. The election had only one winner, Lars Løkke Rasmussen's centrist Moderate party, he asserts.
Now it's really up to them who they want to support.
The most likely outcome is that Mette Frederiksen will continue as Prime Minister, he says, but whether it will be in a centrist government or a government that leans more to the left is impossible to say.
The biggest loser of the election is the Social Democrats, who have not had such a poor result since 1903. According to Stubager, the main reason is that they disappointed many voters from 2022.
One example was the abolition of a national holiday, which was implemented with the argument that Danes had to work harder to raise more money for defense. Many former Social Democrat voters still haven't forgiven that, he notes.
“Huge shift”
Political commentator Noa Redington on Danish TV2 notes that "enormous shifts" have occurred in Danish politics.
He points out the Moderates, who have gained a leading position, and the Danish People's Party, which made strong gains, as the big winners.
"It's Lars Løkke Rasmussen versus Messerschmidt, that's where the energy is and that will define the coming year," he writes.
DR's political analyst Pia Glud Munksgaard is on the same track. Danish People's Party leader Morten Messerschmidt, who now has more than nine percent of the voters behind him, will, among other things, use his success to make life miserable for the Moderates.
But it is Løkke Rasmussen who "holds the key", she notes, since neither the red nor the blue bloc can gain a majority on their own.
