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Denmark's Prime Minister Steps Down After General Election Defeat

© REUTERS / Simon Skipper/ScanpixDanish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt - Sputnik International
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Denmark’s Prime Minister resigned after conceding her party’s defeat in the country’s general election.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Denmark’s Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt resigned on Friday after conceding her party’s defeat in the country’s general election.

A voter casts a ballot in the voting box wrapped by tapes bearing letters that read: Sealed at a primary school in Copenhagen, Denmark, Thursday morning June 18, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Thorning-Schmidt also stepped down as leader of the Social Democratic party, thanking her colleagues for their contribution to the election campaign.

“I was Denmark's first female prime minister. But I will not be the last,” Thorning-Schmidt was quoted as saying by Danish broadcaster DR.

Denmark’s center-left government was beat by center-right opposition block in the Thursday general election.

The opposition bloc received 90 out of 175 mandates.

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