Danes vote in a centre-left coalition led by Helle Thorning-Schmidt 1st female PM [View All]

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Bravo Social Democrats!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/15/danes-female-prime-minister-helle-thorning-schmidt
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The far right's 10-year grip on Denmark's government has ended as the Danes voted for their first female prime minister, handing government to a centre-left coalition.

The close general election gave victory to the social democrats, closing a decade of rightwing ascendancy during which a minority government of liberals and conservatives was kept in power by parliamentary support from the europhobic, Muslim-baiting Danish People's party.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the social democrat leader and daughter-in-law of Neil and Glenys Kinnock, salvaged her political career by ousting the liberal prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen's coalition at her second attempt. She is expected to form a government with three other liberal and leftwing parties.