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Danish ruling coalition leads opinion poll

Xinhua, June 1, 2015 Adjust font size:

Denmark's ruling coalition took a narrow lead over the opposition bloc for the first time since November 2013, as the country is scheduled for a general election on June 18, the latest poll showed Monday.

According to a new survey by Voxmeter, the red bloc, led by Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, holds 50.5 percent of the vote, while the blue bloc has the support of 49.1 percent.

Meanwhile, the prime minister's Social Democratic Party holds 26.8 percent of the vote, while the main opposition party Venstre, led by former prime minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, has slipped to 21.2 percent.

The poll marks a significant development for the red bloc in the past week as a poll on May 25 showed that the red bloc held just 45.6 percent, while the blue bloc fetched 54.3 percent of the vote.

The poll was conducted among 1,056 representatives during the period May 29 to 31.

Thorning-Schmidt on Wednesday called a general election for June 18, kick-starting electoral campaigns for three weeks.

All opinion polls have projected a close race between the government and opposition parties. Endit