In the elections in Denmark, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's Social Democrats once again came out on top, despite losses.
Whether Frederiksen can remain Prime Minister is still open.
It will probably be decisive whether the former middle-class Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen will support them – with his new Moderate party he immediately played a key role in the coming government formation.
Matthias Wysuwa
Political correspondent for northern Germany and Scandinavia based in Hamburg.
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According to the post-election surveys, the Social Democrats came up with 23.1 percent in the election, which means they lost almost three points compared to the 2019 election.
The middle-class Venstre party came in second with 13.5 percent with its top candidate.
It's a historically bad result for the party.
What is decisive, however, is that neither the red bloc around the Social Democrats nor the party that belongs to the blue bloc were able to achieve a majority of at least 90 seats in the Folketing - there are 179 seats in the Danish parliament.
According to the post-election polls, the blue bloc got 73 seats, the red one 85 seats.
Rasmussen, who was prime minister as Venstre chairman until 2019, had not decided who he wanted to support before the election.
With his moderates, he got a good 9 percent and 17 mandates.