Thursday, September 15, 2011

Polls open in Danish election (AP)

COPENHAGEN, Denmark ? Polls have opened in Denmark, where voters are expected to elect their first female prime minister and end 10 years of center-right rule.

Surveys released on election day showed Helle Thorning-Schmidt's left-leaning alliance kept its lead over Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen governing coalition.

For the past decade Denmark has been government by a minority center-right government relying on the parliamentary backing of the anti-immigration Danish People's Party.

They have pushed through a series of pro-market reforms and sharply tightened Denmark's asylum laws.

A power shift isn't likely to yield major changes, but Thorning-Schmidt wants to slap taxes on banks and wealthy Danes and dodge some of the austerity cuts planned by the government.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110915/ap_on_re_eu/eu_denmark_election

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