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.
The Folketing,also known as the Parliament of Denmark or the Danish Parliament in English,is the unicameral national legislature (parliament) of the Kingdom of Denmark—Denmark proper together with the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Established in 1849,until 1953 the Folketing was the lower house of a bicameral parliament,called the Rigsdag;the upper house was the Landsting. It meets in Christiansborg Palace,on the islet of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen.
Marianne Bruus Jelved is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Danish Social Liberal Party. She was elected into parliament in the 1994 Danish general election and had previously sat in parliament from 1987 to 1993. She is a former Minister of Economic Affairs,Nordic Cooperation,Culture and Ecclesiastical Affairs.
Henrik Dam Kristensen is a Danish politician and a former speaker of the Danish parliament. He has been a member of the Danish parliament for the Social Democrats from 1990 to 2004 and again from 2007,during which he served as Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries (1994–1996),Minister for Food (1996–2000),Minister for Social Affairs (2000–2001),Minister for Transport (2011–2013) and Minister for Employment (2014–2015). He served as President of the Nordic Council in 2011 and 2016.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt is a Danish retired politician who served as the 26th Prime Minister of Denmark from 2011 to 2015,and Leader of the Social Democrats from 2005 to 2015. She is the first woman to have held each post. Following defeat in 2015,she announced that she would step down as both Danish Prime Minister and Social Democratic party leader. Ending her political career in April 2016,she was the chief executive of the NGO Save the Children until June 2019.
General elections were held in Denmark on 15 September 2011 to elect the 179 members of the Folketing. Of those 179,175 members were elected in Denmark,two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland.
Troels Lund Poulsen is a Danish politician,who is the Deputy Prime Minister of Denmark and leader of Venstre. He also serves as Minister of Defence. He previously served as Minister for the Environment from 2007 to 2010,Minister for Taxation from 2010 to 2011,Minister of Education in 2011,Minister for Commerce,Business and Growth from 2015 to 2016,Minister for Employment from 2016 to 2019,and Minister for Economic Affairs from 2022 to 2023. He has been a member of the Folketing since 2001,representing the Hedensted nomination district.
Lars Løkke Rasmussen is a Danish politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2022. He previously served as the 25th Prime Minister of Denmark from 2009 to 2011 and again from 2015 to 2019. He was the leader of the liberal Venstre party from 2009 to 2019.Rasmussen has been a member of the Folketing since 21 September 1994. He also served as County Mayor of Frederiksborg County from 1998 to 2001. Subsequently,he was the Interior and Health Minister from 27 November 2001 to 23 November 2007 as part of Anders Fogh Rasmussen's first and second cabinets,and then Minister of Finance from 23 November 2007 to April 2009 as part of Anders Fogh Rasmussen's third cabinet. On 5 April 2009,he succeeded Anders Fogh Rasmussen as prime minister following the latter's appointment as Secretary General of NATO.In the 2011 general election,the government lost its parliamentary majority and Rasmussen tendered the government's resignation to Queen Margrethe II. He was succeeded by Helle Thorning-Schmidt of the Social Democrats on 3 October 2011. In the 2015 general election,the right-wing parties regained a majority in the Folketing. Rasmussen again became prime minister and formed his second cabinet in the same month. This cabinet was made up exclusively of Venstre members,but in November 2016 he was pressured to also include members of Liberal Alliance and Conservative People's Party,forming his third cabinet.On 6 June 2019,he resigned from his position as prime minister after a general election,in which his government was defeated. However,he continued to lead a caretaker government until a new government was formed and sworn in. This was completed on 27 June 2019 and Rasmussen was succeeded as prime minister by Mette Frederiksen. He resigned as the chairman of Venstre in August 2019,and left the party in January 2021. He subsequently formed the Moderates,which campaigned on ending bloc politics,and won 16 seats in the 2022 Danish general election.
Nicolai Halby Wammen is a Danish politician of the Social Democrats who has been serving as Minister for Finance in the government of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen since 2019. A native and lifelong resident of Denmark's second-largest city,Aarhus,he served as mayor from 2006 to 2011. On the national level,he has served as Minister of European Affairs (2011–2013) and as Minister of Defence (2013–2015).
General elections were held in the Kingdom of Denmark on 18 June 2015 to elect the 179 members of the Folketing. 175 members were elected in the Denmark proper,two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland. Although the ruling Social Democrats became the largest party in the Folketing and increased their seat count,the opposition Venstre party was able to form a minority government headed by Lars Løkke Rasmussen with the support of the Danish People's Party,the Liberal Alliance and the Conservative People's Party.
Mette Gjerskov was a Danish politician,who was a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. She was elected into parliament at the 2005 Danish general election. She served as minister for Food,Agriculture and Fisheries.
Pia Olsen Dyhr is a Danish politician who has been a member of the Folketing for the Green Left since the 2007 general elections. Dyhr has served as Minister for Trade and Investment and later Minister of Transport in the first Helle Thorning-Schmidt Cabinet. Following her party's resignation from the cabinet,Dyhr was elected as chairman of her party.
Henrik Sass Larsen is a Danish politician. He is a former member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. He sat in parliament from 2000 to 2019. He was the Danish Minister of Business Affairs and Growth from 2013 to 2015.
Jonas Dahl is a Danish politician. He was Minister for Taxation in the Cabinet of Helle Thorning-Schmidt from 12 December 2013 until 3 February 2014. He was a member of the Folketing representing the Socialist People's Party from 2007 to 2016.
Christine Edda Antorini is a Danish politician for the Social Democrats,formerly for the Socialist People's Party. From 2011 to 2015 she was the Minister of Education in the Cabinet of Helle Thorning-Schmidt. She was a member of the Folketing from 1998 to 1999 and again from 2005 to 2018.
Martin Lidegaard(born 12 December 1966) is a Danish politician who has been the leader of the Social Liberal Party since 2022. He was Denmark's Foreign Minister in the government of Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt from 2014 to 2015,having previously been the Minister of Climate,Energy and Building from 2011 to 2014.
Morten Bødskov is a Danish Social Democratic politician,and member of the Folketing,currently serving as the Minister for Business since 2022. He previously served as Minister of Defence from February to December 2022 and Minister for Taxation under Frederiksen and Minister of Justice in the Government of Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
Mogens Jensen is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. He served as the Minister for Food,Agriculture and Fisheries,Minister for Gender Equality,and Minister for Nordic Cooperation from 2019 to November 2020,when he was forced to resign following a botched handling of Cluster 5 resulting in an order to cull the mink population during the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark.
Lars Aslan Rasmussen is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. He entered parliament on 4 April 2016 when Helle Thorning-Schmidt resigned her seat.
Troels Ravn is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. He entered parliament on 12 January 2016 when Bjarne Corydon resigned his seat. He had previously been a member of parliament from 2005 to 2007 and again from 2011 to 2015.
