Danish PM concedes election defeat

Danish Prime Minister has conceded defeat in parliamentary election and resigned as Social Democratic party leader after a record score for an anti-immigration party lifted the opposition right-wing bloc to
victory.
“Tomorrow I will go to the Queen and tell her that the government is stepping down. Now it is up to Lars Lokke Rasmussen to try to form a government,” Helle Thorning-Schmidt said, referring to the leader of the main right-wing party Venstre.
With all of the votes counted on the mainland, state broadcaster DR projected 90 seats for the opposition coalition in parliament to 85 seats for the ruling centre-left bloc of the prime minister Thorning-Schmidt.
The results represent a surprise yet clear victory for the bloc led by former prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, even though his Venstre party won fewer votes than the right-wing Danish People’s Party (DF) which is part of his alliance.
“The coming days will determine whether it will be possible to build a majority for a (government) platform that will lead Denmark down the right path,” Rasmussen told cheering supporters after the election results came in.
DF has emerged as the second largest party in parliament after Thorning-Schmidt’s Social Democrats with a record 21 percent of votes, while the Venstre party garnered 19.5 percent of votes.
Despite the outcome, DF has been coy about whether it would even enter a government for the first time in its 20-year history.