Denmark's prime minister announces general election date

By Euronews

Published on 07/05/2019 - 13:48

The country will elect a new parliament next month.

Danes will go to the polls next month to vote in a new parliament, the country's prime minister announced today.

Lars Lokke Rasmussen told MPs the poll would be held on Wednesday, June 5.

Opinion polls suggest Rasmussen, from the centre-right Liberal Party, will lose power to Mette Frederiksen of the centre-left Social Democratic Party.

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