The North Atlantic mandates as well as SF, the Moderates and the Radicals are for government negotiations on Thursday.
The Faroese Member of Parliament Sjurdur Skaale from the party Javnaðarflokkurin says after Thursday’s government negotiations with royal examiner Mette Frederiksen (S) that he, i.e. Skaale’s mandate, may be decisive for a future government, but that he does not expect it to be.
– You can look at the math. If there are any parties that drop out, then we will be decisive, says Skaale.
Question: Do you feel that you will be decisive?
– No, that’s not my feeling. It’s not, but you can see what happened in the last election period. There was one by one who dropped out. Then another and then another. So that can change quickly. You can become more decisive than it appears as a starting point, says Skaale.
The four North Atlantic mandates – two from the Faroe Islands and two from Greenland – are up for government negotiations on Thursday at Marienborg, the prime minister’s official residence. They are individually.
Anna Falkenberg from the bourgeois party Sambandsflokkurin notes after her meeting with Mette Frederiksen that the social democratic chairman has been a “good prime minister” for the Commonwealth. Mette Frederiksen has been prime minister since 2019.
While both Skaale and Falkenberg were re-elected, the two members of the Greenlandic parliament are completely new on the scene. They are Qarsoq Høegh-Dam from Naleraq and Naaja H. Nathanielsen from Inuit Ataqatigiit.
On Thursday evening from 6.30 p.m. SF, the Moderates and the Radicals will also arrive for negotiations with Mette Frederiksen, who is trying to form a centre-left government, which will eventually be called the SSFMR government.
The four parties together have 82 mandates and will therefore be a minority government.
Efforts are being made to ensure that the Enhedslisten’s 11 mandates and the Alternative’s 5 mandates should be a parliamentary basis for a possible SSFMR government.
But if, for example, Enhedslisten drops out, it could end up with the Alternative and the North Atlantic mandates getting a decisive role going forward, if a SSFMR government is to be able to count to, for example, 90 mandates and get its policy through.
It has been over nine weeks since voters voted for the general election. Here, the result on 24 March meant that there is neither a red nor a blue majority.
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