[EVENT] Danish Elections 2023 (and events until now)

For the past 7 years, a minority government composed of Venstre (The Liberal Party of Denmark), Liberal Alliance (Exactly what it says on the tin), and Konservative Folkeparti (Conservative People's Party) has ruled Denmark, after a period in 2015-2016 with just Venstre forming a minority government.

In 2019, the coalition fared well, getting better results than in 2015, partly at the expense of Dansk Folkeparti (Danish People's Party), with Venstre seeing the largest increase. Analysts ascribed the overall "blue block" (the coalition parties and Danish People's Party) increase because of the economic upswing in the wake of the Great Recession, while they explained the decline of Dansk Folkeparti due to various cases that had plagued, most notable of which was the fact that they campaigned heavily in favor of a referendum result in December 2015 that would see Denmark suspended from Europol until late 2018.

However, during 2022, Liberal Alliance and Konservative saw a decline in the polls. Experts agree that this is because more voters began seeing them as largely interchangeable, and would often just go with the largest party - Venstre. As a response to this, Liberal Alliance and Konservative tried to push heavily for core issues of theirs in early 2023, leading to a de facto collapse of the coalition government.

Amidst this, Magrethe Vestager, the former leader of Radikale Venstre (Danish Social Liberal Party), returned to Danish politics, and was happily handed the leadership once more, and swiftly saw a rise in the opinion polls, as her work as a European Commissioner had been nigh universally approved in Denmark.

With the left-oriented parties smelling blood in the water, and Dansk Folkeparti refusing to vote for the measures Liberal Alliance and Konservative Folkeparti were trying push through, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen announced that elections would start early August.

Most "minor" parties and Dansk Folkeparti suffered, with Venstre and Radikale Venstre seeing the best results, compared to prior years, with the Left-leaning parties achieving an overall majority.

However, this majority was spread among five parties: Socialdemokraterne (Social Democrats), Radikale Venstre (Danish Social Liberal Party), Enhedslisten (Red-Green Alliance), Socialistisk Folkeparti (Socialists People's Party), and Alternativet (The Alternative).

With 2015-2016 serving as a warning to small minority governments, and 2023 showing what could happen when coalition parties felt the need to mark themselves, Socialdemokraterne did not immediately try to form a coalition government composed of themselves and Radikale Venstre, as had been expected.

Instead, the party leader Mette Frederiksen invited Venstre and Radikale Venstre to negotiations about a government platform, which was presented after two weeks, forming the foundation for the first majority government Denmark has had for long time. Notable main points of the platform was:

• Closer cooperation with the EU (which had been reduced influence from Dansk Folkeparti) and other Nordic countries.

• More focus on renewable energy, as well as beginning groundwork for renewable energy networks with nearby countries, as a proof of concept.

• Strengthening the fringe parts of Denmark by improving infrastructure, with particular care for enabling plug-in cars.