Do we like them?Do we like Lars Løkke Rasmussen?
Our score: 5 out of 10. A visible stand against the Greenland takeover talk, but not enough verified on LGBTQ+, migration, climate or conduct to score higher.
Rasmussen is one of Denmark's veterans. He was prime minister before the 2015 election, when The Local profiled him as banking on experience to win voters back, and he went on to lead the country again. These days he runs his own centrist Moderates party, and he is Denmark's foreign minister.
The Greenland stand-off is the big one for the family's purposes. In January 2026 he rejected any talks on the US taking over Greenland after Donald Trump raised it at Davos. He described a basic disagreement with Washington over sovereignty and self-determination, which is a decent look for a man speaking up for a small place against a very big neighbour.
After the March 2026 election his Moderates held the balance of power, and Bloomberg called him the kingmaker who would decide who became the next prime minister. He paused talks with Mette Frederiksen at one point, according to Ground News summaries of the reporting, which we couldn't open to confirm. It was classic Løkke: hard bargaining, plenty of drama.
The result of all that horse-trading came in early June, when the new government took office and Rasmussen stayed on as foreign minister. Nothing in the coverage we saw suggests he lost the job over the process. Where this leaves him with voters is for Denmark to say.
On the harm check, honestly, we're thin. Nothing in what we read showed him pushing harm against LGBTQ+ people, women, migrants or the planet in his own words. But we also couldn't open the articles that would show his record on immigration, trans rights or climate. A pass would need more than silence.
The same goes for the good-person test. We found no court rulings or conduct stories in the sources we could read, and we can't claim to have searched them properly. That keeps both tests at mixed until someone checks his record on those fronts directly.