Copenhagen, March 25, 2026 (AFP) - Denmark's pipe-smoking kingmaker, Lars Lokke Rasmussen

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2026-03-25

His party won just 14 seats in Denmark's elections, but that gives Lars Lokke Rasmussen all the power: he is kingmaker in the scramble to form a government, his latest winning gamble after 40 years in politics. No party won the majority in Tuesday's vote, meaning that under Denmark's parliamentary system the different blocs are now in talks to form the next governing coalition -- which neither left nor the right are able to do without the support......

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