Saturday, September 17, 2011 New Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt . The leader of Denmark 's Social Democrats Helle Thorning-Schmidt is positioned to become the country's first female prime minister following the election of the "red bloc", a centre-left coalition, on Thursday. The coalition would include members of the Social Democrats , the Socialist People's Party and potentially Social Liberal Party and members of the Red-Green Alliance , and replaces the centre-right coalition government that has been in power for the last ten years. Incumbent prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said that he "will hand in the government's resignation to the Queen" as "[t]here is no longer a basis for remaining in government". Thorning-Schmidt plans to increase taxes, invest in education and welfare, and also introduce a plan to increase working hours by twelve minutes a day to create an extra hour of producti...