Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has called for parliamentary elections on Thursday. The elections will be held on 24 March.
Two members of parliament are to be elected in Greenland, where Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam (N) and Aaja Chemnitz (IA) currently hold the Greenlandic mandates.
The election was called when Mette Frederiksen asked to make a special statement in the Folketing on Thursday.
During her speech, Mette Frederiksen reviewed the work and results of the current government, and the crisis over Greenland filled in:
- It fell to us to handle the biggest foreign policy crisis for Denmark since the Second World War. Although it is by no means over, we have managed to manage it so far in close cooperation with Greenland, the rest of the Folketing and with good partners and allies in Europe, said the Prime Minister.
Mette Frederiksen stressed that the government will continue to be on top of things during the election campaign, among other things in view of the conflict with the USA over Greenland:
- As everyone knows, for example, the conflict over Greenland is not over yet.
- The government will therefore also have to deal with the international situation during an election campaign, just as there will be international meetings that need to be attended to safeguard the interests of the kingdom.
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