EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager | John Thys/AFP via Getty Images New Danish PM wants Vestager to stay as commissioner Mette Frederiksen says competition chief should stay on in Brussels.

Denmark's new prime minister wants Margrethe Vestager to stay on as the country's European commissioner.

Mette Frederiksen told Danish broadcaster TV 2 Wednesday “we will propose that the commissioner that we have already appointed, namely Margrethe Vestager, has the chance to continue for the next five years.”

Social Democrat Frederiksen became Denmark's youngest prime minister Wednesday after finalizing the support of three other leftist parties to form a government. The 41-year-old will lead a one-party minority government backed by the Socialist People’s Party, the Red-Green Alliance and the Social Liberal Party. Vestager is a member of the Social Liberal Party (Radikale Venstre).

The decision to keep Vestager at the Commission was also tweeted by the secretary-general of the European liberals, the political family to which Vestager belongs.

Vestager has been the Commission's competition chief since 2014 and her name had been floated as a possible replacement for Jean-Claude Juncker as Commission president.

Her battles against U.S. tech giants including Google and Apple won her wide support in Brussels — and made her the female superstar candidate in Europe’s liberal camp — but she faced the problem that her home country looked unlikely to nominate her for a top Commission post. Denmark’s former Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, despite being part of the same European liberal family, is a political opponent and was supported in parliament by the anti-immigration Danish People’s Party, which is categorical that Vestager should not be Copenhagen’s nominee.

That changed with June's election, in which the Social Democrats came out on top.

Vestager may be popular with the new Danish government, but she's not liked in the White House. Earlier Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump said: "You have a woman in Europe, I won't mention her name, she's actually considered to take Jean-Claude's place ... she hates the United States perhaps worse than any person I've ever met. What she does to our country. She's suing all our companies."