 The bourgeois coalition government of Denmark in 1992 consisting of Conservatives Agrarian Liberals and the Social democrats held approximately 80% of the seats in the Danish Parliament and therefore believed that the referendum would easily get approved which was not the case.The ratification of the Maastricht Treaty needed to be a unanimous decision by all the member states in the EU and the Danish "No" therefore posed a significant issue for the further integration process.Denmark was not the only country issuing a referendum for the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty.