Helle Thorning-Schmidt will be sworn in as Denmark's first female prime minister. Her narrow victory at the polls is being billed as a victory of the center-left over the center-right, which has held power in Denmark for a decade. The center-right coalition had passed some of the most restrictive anti-immigration laws in Europe. No speculation that I saw as to whether a reaction against July's rightwing terrorist mass-murder in nearby Norway might have helped swing the numbers in her favor.
Meanwhile, in Norway, support for the far-right, anti-immigrant Progress Party plummeted in local elctions, sinking from second to third in national prominence. The confessed mass murderer, Anders Behring Breivik had been affiliated with the Progress Party for several years. The ruling Norwegian labor party, which had been targeted for extermination by Breivik, attained its best results in over two decades.
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