Danish govt wins second term

Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s centre-right government won its second term today.

With more than 50% of the votes counted by the government, it was clear Danes had embraced plans to keep immigration in check and taxes from rising.

With 53% of the vote tallied by elections officials, the governing bloc – a coalition of Liberals, Conservatives and the anti-immigration Danish Peoples Party – was on its way to getting nearly 100 seats in the 179-seat Folketing, or parliament.

The Social Democratic-led opposition was set to win 75 of parliament’s 179 seats.

A senior Social Democrat, Henrik Dam Kristensen, said: ”It looks like we must admit that we’re facing a defeat.”