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		</div><p>Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has called a general election for Tuesday, November 1st, seven months ahead of the end of her term in office.</p>
<p>Ms Frederiksen, who has headed the Social Democratic minority government since June 2019, has seen her popularity dwindle in recent weeks due to her role in a pandemic-era decision to wipe out Denmark’s entire captive mink population.</p>
<p>Polls show that the centre-left bloc is neck-and-neck with the centre-right opposition, which includes parties that want to reduce immigration.</p>
<p>In June, a Danish parliament-appointed commission harshly criticised Ms Frederiksen’s government for its decision to cull millions of healthy mink at the height of the coronavirus pandemic to protect humans from a mutation of the virus.</p>
<p>The election will select members of the 179-seat Folketing, or parliament.</p>
<p>As she announced the poll, Ms Frederiksen said: “We want a broad government with parties on both sides of the political middle.”</p>
<p>She admitted that “it is, of course, peculiar to have a general election in the middle of an international crisis.”</p>
<p>Ms Frederiksen has recently been speaking openly about governing with some of the parties that are part of the centre-right opposition.</p>
<p>She became Denmark’s youngest prime minister when she took office aged 41 in 2019.</p>
<p>She reached out to other political parties, including the opposition, to help steer the Scandinavian country through the Covid-19 pandemic and later teamed up with the opposition to hike Danish defence spending in the wake of the March 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia.</p>
<p>She also is a staunch supporter of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy.</p>
<p>After the report on the mink culling was published, one of the government’s centre-left allies, the Social Liberal Party, stood up against Ms Frederiksen and criticised her for her handling of the mink issue.</p>
<p>Ms Frederiksen has insisted that she didn’t know the culling decision was unlawful, saying it was “based on a very serious risk assessment.” A law was passed shortly after to make it legal.</p>
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