Remember the blonde Obama dawdled with at Mandela's funeral much to Moose's chagrin? She's been ousted.
"Obama friend Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the prime minister of Denmark for the past four years, has been defeated in her bid for a second term.
Thorning-Schmidt, the country’s first female leader, famously took a selfie with President Obama and British PM David Cameron during the funeral of Nelson Mandela in December 2013.
After conceding defeat, she stepped down as party leader, and her resignation as prime minister is imminent.
In the voting yesterday, Denmark’s center-right opposition coalition outpolled Thorning-Schmidt’s center-left Social Democrats, and Lars Loekke Rasmussen is likely to become the country’s new prime minister.
“With all of the results counted, the opposition bloc had won 52.3% of the vote or 90 seats in the 179 seat parliament. Ms. Thorning-Schmidt and her allies had secured 47.7% support or 85 seats,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
Rasmussen’s own party ironically lost seats in the Danish parliament on Thursday, but the center-right was strengthened by the surprise electoral success of the surging Danish People’s Party, now the second-largest party in the chamber behind the Social Democrats, which is expected to help form the new government. The DPP embraces a generally analogous platform to the UK Independence Party, Ukip, in England."
One of the major issues in this election was immigration policy. The success of the Danish People's Party may be an indicator that Europeans have had enough.
Obama, I am sure, is devastated.
"This is the most lavishly funded and entirely moronic foreign ministry on the planet."~~Mark Steyn's description of the US State Dept.