"A part of a pig's snout": Marie Strong acknowledges defeat after eight years as mayor of Køge

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*'A bit of a slap in the face':* Marie Stærke acknowledges defeat after eight years as mayor of Køge

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It has been a tough election for S, sounds like it from the outgoing mayor of Køge.

Since 2018, Social Democrat Marie Stærke has been the mayor of Køge. (Photo: © Claus Bech/Ritzau Scanpix) 6 min. ago

Since 2018, the Social Democrats' Marie Stærke has been on the mayor's seat in Køge Municipality, but she acknowledges that it will not continue.

- Now the last polling station has been spoken for, and there is no doubt that the Social Democrats in Køge have received something of a slap in the face, and I would like to congratulate the blue coalition with the beautiful result, she says.

The Social Democrats in Køge Municipality have lost 13 percentage points and will lose four seats. The party is the second largest after the Liberals, who receive 28 percent of the votes, while the Social Democrats receive 18.6 percent.

Marie Stærke became the mayor of Køge Municipality for the first time in 2007, when she was 27 years old. She was then the youngest female mayor in Denmark ever, but that position was taken over by the 25-year-old Christina Krzyrosiak Hansen in 2017.

In 2013, Stærke lost the mayor's seat to the conservative Flemming Christensen, but regained the seat in 2017.

- I have gone to work every single day with pride and with great joy, and I would like to say to the one who will succeed me that they should take good care of Køge Municipality. I think I am handing over Køge Municipality a really good place, and the mayor's office is only on loan and should be used to take good care of the municipality.

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'It has been a tough election for the Social Democrats'

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Even Marie Stærke is satisfied with her election campaign and says that she has a "great peace in my stomach," when a journalist asks how she feels.

- We can see that it is all over Denmark that the Social Democrats are losing ground. It has been a tough election for the Social Democrats, says Marie Stærke.

Around midnight, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) gave a speech, in which she acknowledged that the party's decline is greater than they had calculated.

- Of course it is not satisfying. There are certainly many different explanations, sounded it earlier from Mette Frederiksen ().

Marie Stærke says that she has tried to reach out to the Conservative and Liberal candidates and said that her phone line is open, but that she has not heard anything from them.

The parties are in alliances with the Liberal Alliance, the Danish People's Party, the Christian Democrats, the Moderates, the Denmark Democrats, the Citizens' Local List Køge and the Corona Camping List.

There is still no new mayor in Køge, but you can follow the election in the liveblog:

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