The royal house said Frederiksen had completed negotiations with representatives of the parties in the Folketing and had advised the king to give her the task of forming that government. It said the king then asked her to form the cabinet, which is expected to be received at Amalienborg on Wednesday morning.
The coalition returns Frederiksen to office for a third term after negotiations that followed Denmark's 24 March general election. France 24 reported that Frederiksen secured a third term with the new coalition, while The Guardian reported that the agreement maintained her hold on power after months of uncertainty.
The governing parties are the Social Democrats, Socialistisk Folkeparti, the Moderates and Radikale Venstre. In English, SF is usually rendered as the Socialist People's Party and Radikale Venstre as the Social Liberal Party. The royal-house notice names all four parties, and France 24 and Switzerland's SRF reported the same composition.
The four parties do not hold an outright majority. France 24 and SRF reported that they together control 82 of the Folketing's 179 seats. The Folketing is Denmark's unicameral parliament; its public mandate table lists 179 members and party groups, although the live official table available at the time of writing still showed the previous distribution, so the 82-seat figure is attributed here to current independent reporting rather than to a refreshed official seat table.
A minority government can govern in Denmark if it can secure support on votes from parties outside the cabinet. The royal-house notice said the government would be supported by a majority in the Folketing, while The Guardian reported that the coalition would rely mainly on the Red-Green Alliance for a parliamentary majority and could seek support from other parties on individual votes.
The talks were among the longest in modern Danish politics. Xinhua reported that the process lasted 69 days and was the longest government-formation process in the country's history. El Pais also reported that the negotiations lasted almost 70 days and were the longest in the Nordic country's history.