No Foreign Interference Found in Danish 2026 Parliamentary Election

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:10:28 +0000
Elections

FE (Danish Defence Intelligence Service), PET (Danish Police Intelligence Service), and SAMSIK (Agency for Government Supply) have published their preliminary findings on the March 24, 2026 Danish parliamentary election. The three agencies found no evidence of influence activities by foreign intelligence services in connection with the election. However, the agencies observed that profiles linked to Russian online environments shared distorted statements about Danish politicians during the campaign, spreading pro-Russian messages with limited reach. Disinformation about Denmark, particularly regarding Greenland, achieved wider circulation in some cases. Pro-Russian hacker groups also launched distributed denial-of-service attacks against Danish and Greenlandic websites, though within typical baseline activity levels for this type of attack.