Former Danish prime minister Rasmussen to form new party


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  • Monday, 12 Apr 2021

FILE PHOTO: Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen arrives for a European Union summit in Brussels, Belgium, June 21, 2019. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's former prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen plans to form a new political party to connect left and right wings with a "pragmatic and undogmatic" voice, a move that could potentially upset the nation's post-war political order.

Rasmussen resigned from his centre-right Liberal Party in January after losing the 2019 election to the Social Democratic Party and being dethroned as head of his party the same year.

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