First female Prime Minister of Denmark center-left coalition won the Danish Parliament on Thursday

[sfpcjock]

Helle Thorning-Schmidt is designated to become the first female Prime Minister of Denmark after a centre-left opposition coalition won the Danish parliamentary election on Thursday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_parliamentary_election,_2011"> Danish parliamentary election, 2011

[Swede]

1. Skål

:toast:

[democrank]

2. Good news.

We`re so far behind.

[sfpcjock]

4. Especially in Congress, so few women seem "dumb enough", for lack of a better word, to assume

the political and financial burdens of office in our system. I do agree with you.

Women often care more about family and the real needs and wants of people, but perhaps find the political terrain too alien to be attractive to them. I personally would prefer the outcome that that would entail.

[pampango]

3. CSM: Denmark's election blunts far right's power

Helle Thorning-Schmidt is slated to become Denmark's first female prime minister after her left-wing coalition edged out government heavily influenced by Denmark's extreme right.

In Thursday's national election, Danish voters gave a small thumbs-up to a center-left coalition and to the nation's first female prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, ending a decade of government defined by tough policies on immigration and harsh rhetoric on Muslims.

Female politicians are not unusual in Scandinavia. But a new left coalition and a young female leader may change Denmark’s image as an increasingly closed and often Europhobic state that this summer tried to create separate border control stations, angering Germany and European Union officials.

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Thorning-Schmidt's four-party leftwing coalition scored 92 seats compared with 88 by a center-right grouping, which was often steered by the powerful influence of the far-right anti-Islam and anti-EU Danish People’s Party (DPP), known as “kingmakers” in a coalition led by outgoing Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2011/0916/Denmark-s-election-blunts-far-right-s-power

[sfpcjock]

5. Thanks!

[LeftishBrit]

6. Excellent news!

Both Norway and Denmark have moved back to their centre-left - which by American standards would be far left - and the small but nasty RW extremist parties have been sent off with their tails between their legs. Good!

Incidentally, Thorning-Schmidt is, improbable as it sounds, the daughter-in-law of our former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock; which has led to some of our RW press being more nastily interested in the election and in RW smear campaigns about it than they usually are with regard to Scandinavia. So they won't be happy with the result!