Anti-immigrant Dane wins re-election

Danish prime minister wins re-election on anti-immigrant platform:

Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's center-right government won its second term Tuesday as Denmark voters embraced its plans to keep immigration in check and taxes from rising.

Opposition leader Mogens Lykketoft conceded defeat in the nationwide parliamentary vote, acknowledging that the government had made ``a much stronger impact that we have.''

With most of the ballots tallied, the governing bloc of Liberals, Conservatives and the anti-immigration Danish Peoples Party had 55 percent and was projected to control 96 seats in the 179-seat parliament, called the Folketing.

The Social Democratic-led opposition had 45 percent and was expected to end up with 79 seats.

The four remaining seats go to the Faeroe Islands and Greenland, both semi-independent Danish territories.

Fogh Rasmussen called for early elections in January, banking on the popularity of his government's push to preserve Denmark's welfare state, keep immigration under control and prevent taxes, the second highest in Europe, from rising.

The results mirrored polls released ahead of the voting predicted an easy win for the 52-year-old Fogh Rasmussen and his government.