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Right wins in Danish elections

Prime minister concedes defeat, resigns

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - Rome, June 19 - The anti-immigrant and anti-EU Danish People's Party (DF) scored a significant victory in national elections on Friday, taking home 21% of the vote to become the second-biggest party in parliament.
    Although the Social Democratic Party remains the top party with 26% of the vote, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt resigned, conceding defeat to former prime minister Lars L›kke Rasmussen, leader of the conservative Liberal Party.
    Although the Liberal Party came third on 19.5%, it received enough coalition votes to grab the 90-seat majority necessary to put its leader in power.
   

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