Denmark Election
People line up to receive their ballots at a polling station at City Hall in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Tuesday, March 24, 2026, during the general election.
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Danish voters are going to the polls in a general election. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is seeking a third term at the helm of the Scandinavian country after a standoff with President Donald Trump over the future of the kingdom’s semiautonomous territory of Greenland. More than 4.3 million people are eligible to have their say in Tuesday’s vote for the new Folketing, or parliament, in Copenhagen, which is elected for a four-year term. Frederiksen called the election last month. She went to the country several months before she had to in apparent hopes that her resolute image in the crisis over Greenland would help her with voters in the European Union and NATO member country.