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The Schlüter I cabinet was the first cabinet of Prime Minister of Denmark Poul Schlüter. It first formed on 10 September 1982 and lasted until the 1984 general election on 10 January 1984, before reforming the day afterwards and continuing until the 1987 Danish general election on 8 September 1987. The government was a coalition of the Conservative Party, the Agrarian Liberals, the Centre Democrats, and the Christian Democrats. The coalition was a minority government and relied heavily on external support from the Progress Party and the Radical Liberals. Schlüter was the first conservative prime minister since 1901, when Hannibal Sehested of the Højre party was in office, and the first ever from the Conservative Party.

History
On 3 September 1982, Anker Jørgensen's government resigned after failing to get support for their austerity policies and Margrethe II invited Schlüter to try to form a new government.

A general election was called when the coalition's Finance Bill was defeated. After a 10-hour debate on the bill, and with the Social Democrats and the Progress Party opposing it, the government was defeated by 93 votes to 77. After the 1984 election, the Radical Liberals announced their support for the government's austerity measures but said they would oppose US missile deployments in Denmark.

After the 1987 election, the four coalition parties and the Radical Liberals only had 81 seats among them; although the Progress Party had nine seats which would have given the government a majority, the Radical Liberals refused to enter a coalition with them, seeing the party as extreme and racist.