Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the Danish prime minister, has called a general election for June 18.
While calling the election, Ms Thorning-Schmidt outlined the progress her government has made.
"Denmark
was hit harder by the crisis than many other countries because the good
times had been used badly," she told journalists at a news conference
held in her office.
"From day one,
I have had a clear goal - to bring Denmark out of the crisis with our
solidarity and order intact. This has been achieved."
The
election will see her centre-left Social Democrats face stiff
competition from the centre-right Liberals and the anti-immigrant Danish
People's Party.
Polls show a
coalition of the Social Democrats and other parties are about seven or
eight percentage points behind a bloc of the Liberals and other parties.
The
Eurosceptic Danish People's Party could find itself in a coalition
government for the first time in its 20-year history should the main
opposition Liberals win.
Selfie
Ms
Thorning-Schmidt is married to Stephen Kinnock, the son of former
British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock and newly elected MP for the
Aberavon constituency in Wales.
She
became an internet sensation in 2013 after she took a 'selfie' of
herself with President Barack Obama and David Cameron at the Nelson
Mandela memorial - to the apparent displeasure of Michelle Obama.
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