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Løkke believes he is the one who can bring Mette Frederiksen and Troels Lund Poulsen back together again. After an election campaign in which they have, to a remarkable degree, talked themselves farther and farther apart.

Løkke drops a bomb in the campaign’s final sprint: I want to be the royal investigator

Is Lars Løkke running for prime minister? No, he says. But he is offering himself as the royal investigator – in other words, the person who examines whether it is possible to form a government that does not, from the outset, have a majority against it. Foto: Martin Lehmann
Is Lars Løkke running for prime minister? No, he says. But he is offering himself as the royal investigator – in other words, the person who examines whether it is possible to form a government that does not, from the outset, have a majority against it. Foto: Martin Lehmann

He knows full well that people may not entirely believe him, but this is still where he begins as we sit at a sidewalk café in central Copenhagen. And it is important to underscore it:

»I’m not a candidate for prime minister, but I would like to be the one who negotiates a governing platform for a government across the middle. Not to form a government, but to examine whether a governing platform can be created. That’s why I’m putting myself forward as the royal investigator, if we in Moderaterne hold the decisive votes«, says Lars Løkke Rasmussen (M).

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