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AFP, Copenhagen

Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's centre-right bloc won Tuesday's election with the slimmest possible majority and will now seek to form a broader but possibly shakier alliance.

"We have received a mandate to continue our work t I want to seek a broad majority in parliament and I will invite all the parties who supported the government in for talks on a joint program," Rasmussen told supporters after declaring victory. Rasmussen's Liberal-Conservative minority coalition has governed with the support of the far-right anti-immigrant Danish People's Party (DPP) since 2001. Together the three parties were expected to win 89 seats, one shy of a majority, with 100 percent of votes on the mainland counted. They were expected to gain one more seat from the autonomous Faroe Islands, where results had yet to be tallied. The prime minister's invite was pointed directly at the newly-formed centre-right New Alliance, whose five seats would be a welcome boost to Rasmussen's bloc.