 Edmund Joensen's pledge to abstain on matters related to internal affairs of Denmark and would alter this, giving the New Alliance the balance of power and risking conflict with the DPP, but Joensen has also pledged that if doing so would risk giving the opposition a majority, he would not abstain, but instead vote with the government.As after the last election, where Rasmussen also secured continuing power, there were some shuffling of minister posts in the cabinet.The resulting Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen III was presented a few days after the election.