India, June 3 -- Social Democrat Mette Frederiksen is set to begin a third term as Denmark's prime minister, leading a centre-left coalition of four parties after two months of negotiations.

Besides Frederiksen's own party, the new Government will include the centrist Moderate party of outgoing Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, the Green Left (SF), and the Danish Social Liberal Party, the Danish Royal House said in a statement on Monday. It will be a government working for "the people of Denmark, for the generations to come and for the animals," Frederiksen said Monday night.

Animal welfare was one of several issues that were debated during the campaign. Frederiksen had called an early election in February, apparently hoping her pa...