This is the woman Danish voters hope will fix the economy.<br/> Social Democrat Helle Thorning-Schmidt is set to become Denmark's first female prime minister.<br/> (SOUNDBITE) (Danish) MAIN CANDIDATE FOR THE DANISH SOCIAL DEMOCRATS, HELLE THORNING-SCHMIDT, (APPROXIMATE TRANSLATION), SAYING:<br/> "The road has been long. They have been hard times and we've struggled but tonight we've shown that the Social Democrats are still a big force holding up society."<br/> Her win ends 10 years of centre-right rule.<br/> Emotions ran high at her party event.<br/> (SOUNDBITE) (English) ) SOCIAL DEMOCRAT SUPPORTER, ISA PETERSEN, SAYING:<br/> "I'm happy, it's indescribable but I'm really happy, you can feel the pure happiness coming from this room. It's really amazing."<br/> The economy will be Thorning-Schmidt's first task.<br/> Her plan includes increased government spending, raising taxes on the wealthy and a somewhat unusual idea to increase the working day by 12 minutes.<br/> This adds up to an extra hour each week which her group says will help kick-start economic growth.<br/> The current prime minister is to step down on Friday but warns her not to get too comfortable.<br/> (SOUNDBITE)(Danish) DANISH PRIME MINISTER, LARS LOKKE RASMUSSEN, SAYING:<br/> "I will give the keys to the State Ministry and I want to say 'Dear Helle - take care of the keys because they're not for keeps."<br/> A preliminary tally shows her Red bloc won by a slim majority of five seats.<br/> She now must form a government.<br/> Complicating this is the fact that the two biggest winners were far-left Red-Green Alliance and the centrist Social Liberals.<br/> They both back Thorning-Schmidt, but agree on little else.<br/> Marie-Claire Fennessy, Reuters
