It was nailbitingly close, but in the end Anders Fogh Rasmussen won his gamble. The Danish prime minister had called an election 15 months early, confident that the exceptionally strong economy of recent years would secure an unprecedented third term for his centre-right "blue" coalition. When the votes were counted on November 13th, the blue block seemed to have exactly 90 seats, just enough for a ma-jority-although it later emerged that one Faroese member of the Folketing was but a lukewarm supporter, so the government's grip may be uncertain.
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