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.
Claus Hjort Frederiksen is a Danish politician of the Venstre party,who served as the Danish Minister for Defence from 2016 to 2019,and as Minister for Finance from 2015 to 2016,having previously served in that position from 2009 to 2011,as member of the first Løkke Rasmussen Cabinet. From 2001 to 2009,he was Minister of Employment in the first,second,and third cabinets of Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
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.
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.
Astrid Krag is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. She served as the Minister of Social Affairs and the Interior in the Cabinet of Mette Frederiksen. She previously served as Minister of Health and Prevention in the Cabinet of Helle Thorning-Schmidt from October 2011 until January 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.
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.
The Alternative is a green and pro-European political party in Denmark. The party was publicly launched on 27 November 2013 by former Minister of Culture Uffe Elbæk and Josephine Fock;Elbæk had been a parliamentarian for the Social Liberal Party. Elbæk was the leader of the party until February 2020,where he stepped down and was succeeded by Fock. Currently the party is led by Franciska Rosenkilde. It collaborates with DiEM25 at the European level.
Alex Dominique Kristensen Vanopslagh is a French-born Danish politician. He is a member of the Folketing,and party leader of the Liberal Alliance. He is a former chairman of its youth wing,Liberal Alliance Youth.
Trine Bramsen is a Danish politician of the Social Democrats,who has been a member of the Folketing since 2011. She served as minister of transport from February to December 2022 and minister of defence from 2019 until February 2022.
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.
Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats. She has been the Minister for Culture and Ecclesiastical Affairs since 2021. She was elected member of Folketinget for the Social Democrats in 2011. She was appointed Minister of Higher Education and Science in the Frederiksen Cabinet from 27 June 2019. On 16 August 2021,the former Minister of Church and Ecclesiastical Affairs Joy Mogensen resigned and Halsboe-Jørgensen took over the position.
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.
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.
Rasmus Prehn is a Danish politician who has been a member of the Folketing since the 2005 Danish general election. He served as Minister for Development Cooperation from 2019 to 2020,and as Minister for Food,Agriculture and Fisheries from 2020 to 2022.
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.
Jakob Engel-Schmidt is a Danish politician and Member of the Folketing from the Moderates. Since 15 December 2022 he has been minister for culture in the Frederiksen II Cabinet.
