BBC NEWS Danish centre-right wins election Denmark's centre-right government of Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has won a snap election, securing a third consecutive term in office. His Liberal-Conservative coalition and allies won 90 of the 179 seats in parliament, near complete results show. The centre-left opposition led by the Social Democrats secured 84 seats. Mr Rasmussen now faces tough talks on whether to expand the ruling bloc by including a new party led by a Syria-born Palestinian immigrant. Turnout was higher than in the previous poll, held in 2005, at over 86%. Tough negotiations "It's a good day for Denmark. Everything indicates that the government can continue," Mr Rasmussen, 54, told his jubilant supporters after victory became clear. THE NEW DANISH PARLIAMENT Liberal Party 46 (-6) Social Democrats 45 (-1) Danish People's Party 25 (+1) Socialist Party 23 (+12) Conservative Party 18 (no change) New Alliance 5 (+5) Others 17 Total 179 Social Democrat leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt admitted her party had failed to gain enough votes, saying: "It was not enough." "We'll do it next time," she added. With all the votes counted, Mr Rasmussen's Liberal Party lost six of its seats to secure 46 berths in the parliament, the Folketing, while the Conservatives remained unchanged at 18. But the coalition's majority was assured thanks to a strong showing by the right-wing Danish People's Party (DPP). The minority Liberal-Conservative cabinet has until now counted on the support of the DPP. Another allied party appeared to have won one of two seats in the semi-autonomous Faroe Islands. Mr Rasmussen's bloc now has to decide whether to include the recently formed New Alliance party, headed by Naser Khader, a Palestinian immigrant. The party won five seats. Although Mr Khader said his choice would be to side with the prime minister, many now expect negotiations along the way. A coalition including the anti-immigrant DPP and Mr Khader's party could also be unstable, some analysts say. Complete official results are expected later on Wednesday. The issues of welfare and tax reforms, immigration and the environment led to much campaign wrangling. But all the main parties seem to agree on the core issues and campaigning has been more about who wields power than any policy change, correspondents say. Mr Rasmussen called the early election three weeks ago, taking advantage of high approval ratings and strong economic growth. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/europe/7091941.stm Published: 2007/11/14 09:29:52 GMT C BBC MMVII . <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11648958/grpspId=1705447214/msgI d=48148/stime=1195045979/nc1=3848627/nc2=5028924/nc3=3848641> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
