The Green Left is a democratic socialist political party in Denmark.
The Social Democrats is a social democratic political party in Denmark. A member of the Party of European Socialists,the Social Democrats have 50 out of 179 members of the Danish parliament,Folketing,and three out of fourteen MEPs elected from Denmark.
Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. From 2019 to 2022,she has served as Minister of Children and Education. She was elected into parliament at the 2011 Danish general election. She had previously been a member of parliament from 2001 to 2007 as a member of the Red-Green Alliance. From 2011 to 2014,she was the spokesperson on climate and energy for the Social Democrats.
Karen Moustgaard Jespersen is a Danish journalist and former politician representing the party Venstre.
Jeppe Sebastian Kofod is a former Danish politician of the Social Democratic Party who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark between 27 June 2019 to 15 December 2022.
The politics of Denmark take place within the framework of a parliamentary representative democracy,a constitutional monarchy and a decentralised unitary state in which the monarch of Denmark,King Frederik X,is the head of state. Denmark is a nation state. Danish politics and governance are characterized by a common striving for broad consensus on important issues,within both the political community and society as a whole.
Mette Frederiksen is a Danish politician who has been serving as prime minister of Denmark since June 2019,and leader of the Social Democrats since June 2015. The second woman to hold either office,she is also the youngest prime minister in Danish history,the first to be born after Margrethe II's accession to the throne,and the first to serve under Frederik X.
Annette Lilja Vilhelmsen is a Danish politician who served as chairperson of the Socialist People's Party from 2012 to 2014. She served as Minister for Social Affairs and Integration from August 2013 to February 2014 and Minister for Economic and Business Affairs from 2012 to 2013 in the first cabinet of Helle Thorning-Schmidt. She was a member of Folketing from 2011 to 2015.
General elections were held in the Kingdom of Denmark on 5 June 2019 to elect all 179 members of the Folketing;175 in Denmark proper,two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland. The elections took place ten days after the European Parliament elections.
Sofie Carsten Nielsen is a Danish politician,who was formerly the leader of the Danish Social Liberal Party from October 2020 to November 2022. In the 2000s,Nielsen began her political career with the European Parliament as a consultant before working for the Ministry of Gender Equality as a deputy minister. After being elected to the Folketing at the 2011 Danish general election for the Greater Copenhagen constituency,Nielsen became the Minister for Higher Education and Science in 2014. Nielsen remained in her minister position until she was replaced by Esben Lunde Larsen in 2015.
Lea Wermelin is a Danish politician. She has been a member of Folketinget for the Social Democrats from 2015. She was appointed Minister for the Environment in the Frederiksen Cabinet from 27 June 2019.
Nick Hækkerup is a Danish writer and politician of Social Democrats who has been serving as the Minister of Justice in the Frederiksen Cabinet from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as Minister of Defence,and Minister of Health.
Magnus Johannes Heunicke is a Danish journalist and politician who serves as a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. He was the Minister of Health from 2019 to 2022,and minister of elderly affairs from 2019 to 2021.
Mattias Tesfaye is a Danish politician serving as Minister for Education and Children since 2022. He was previously Minister for Justice from February to December 2022 and Minister for Immigration and Integration from 2019 to 2022,and has been member of the Folketing since the 2015 Danish general election as a member of the Social Democrats.
Benny Engelbrecht is a Danish politician who has been a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats since the 2007 general elections. He served as the Minister of Transport from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as Minister of Taxation from 2014 to 2015.
Kaare Dybvad Bek is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. He was elected into parliament at the 2015 Danish general election. He has been the Minister for Immigration and Integration since 2022,the Minister for Building and Housing from 2019 to 2022 and Minister of the Interior from 2021 to 2022.
Simon Kollerup is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. He has been serving as Minister of Economic and Business Affairs in the Frederiksen Cabinet since 2019.
Peter Hummelgaard Thomsen is a Danish writer and politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. He has been the Minister of Employment since 2019. He was elected into parliament in the 2015 Danish general election.
Sophie Løhde Jacobsen is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. She has been a member of parliament since the 2007 Danish general election,and served as Minister of Health from 2015 to 2016,and Minister of Public Innovation from 2016 to 2019.
Events in the year 2022 in Denmark.
