COPENHAGEN: Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen announced that Denmark will hold a general election on June 5, with immigration a hot-button issue for voters.
He has been in power since 2015. He later formed a coalition with the smaller Liberal-Alliance and the Conservatives.
In recent months, the Social Democrats have moved closer to the stricter immigration agenda of the Danish People’s Party — a party with a euro skeptic line founded in 1995. The populists, now Denmark’s second-largest party, grabbed more than 21% in the 2015 election in its best vote ever.
This time around, polls say the Danish People’s Party will win 15% of the vote.
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