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Lars Løkke Rasmussen wants a ministry with real economic clout for Moderaterne in a new government. Mette Frederiksen is not ruling out Løkke as finance minister.

Moderaterne are zeroing in on an economic ministry in coalition talks

The biggest sticking point is economic policy as Moderaterne’s Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Socialdemokratiet’s Mette Frederiksen negotiate to form a new government. Here they are on April 10, arriving for the first meeting of Parliament after the election. Foto: Jens Dresling
The biggest sticking point is economic policy as Moderaterne’s Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Socialdemokratiet’s Mette Frederiksen negotiate to form a new government. Here they are on April 10, arriving for the first meeting of Parliament after the election. Foto: Jens Dresling
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Moderaterne (M) are aiming for a heavyweight economic ministry in order to command the macroeconomic calculators of the government more effectively than they have in the SVM government.

»We’re a reform party, and of course I would have loved for this party to have had more access to computing power than we’ve had in this government configuration«, party leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen (M) says.

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