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When Mette Frederiksen boarded the royal yacht Dannebrog on Monday evening and announced that she can form a government, she secured her place among the very greatest, Elisabet Svane says.

Elisabet Svane: Mette Frederiksen said something on Monday evening that I’ve never heard before

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is visiting HRH King Frederik aboard the royal yacht, docked in Odense, to inform him that a new government can be formed comprising Socialdemokratiet, SF, Radikale Venstre and Moderaterne. Foto: Mads Nissen
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is visiting HRH King Frederik aboard the royal yacht, docked in Odense, to inform him that a new government can be formed comprising Socialdemokratiet, SF, Radikale Venstre and Moderaterne. Foto: Mads Nissen

»It wasn’t just the longest government-formation talks in Danish history. It was also the most spectacular ending«, says Politiken’s political analyst, Elisabet Svane, after Mette Frederiksen told King Frederik on Monday evening that she is able to form a government.

Spectacular because the King was nowhere to be found in his usual rooms at Amalienborg; on Monday, he had set sail on a summer cruise around Denmark aboard the royal yacht Dannebrog.

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