Pia Merete Kjærsgaard is a Danish politician who was Speaker of the Danish Parliament from 2015 to 2019,and former leader of the Danish People's Party.
Venstre,full name Venstre,Danmarks Liberale Parti,is a conservative-liberal,agrarian political party in Denmark. Founded as part of a peasants' movement against the landed aristocracy,today it espouses an economically liberal,pro-free-market ideology.
The Danish People's Party is a nationalist and right-wing populist political party in Denmark. It was formed in 1995 by former members of the Progress Party (FrP).
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen was a Danish politician who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark in the Conservative-led Poul Schlüter Administration from 1982 to 1993. He was leader of the Danish Liberal Party Venstre from 1984 to 1998 and President of the European Liberals 1995–2000.
Henrik Dam Kristensen is a Danish politician and the current speaker of the Danish parliament. He has been a member of the Danish parliament for the Social Democrats from 1990–2004 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.
Kristian Jensen is a Danish politician who was Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark from 2015 to 2016,Minister of Finance from 2016 to 2019 and Minister of Taxation from 2004 to 2010. Jensen is a member of the liberal party Venstre. He briefly served as acting chairman of Venstre in 2019. From 1998 to 2021 he was a member of the Folketing.
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.
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.
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,Queen Margrethe II,is the head of state. Denmark is described as 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.
Søren Pind is a Danish lawyer and politician,a member of the center-right party Venstre. He served as Danish Minister of Justice from 2015 to 2016,and as Minister of Science,Technology,Information and Higher Education from 2016 to May 2018,where he resigned because he was tired of politics.
The 2014 European Parliament election in Denmark was an election held in Denmark on 25 May 2014 to decide who would represent Denmark in the European Parliament (EP) from 2014 to 2019. The Danish People's Party with 26.6% of the votes became the largest party for the first time in a nationwide Danish election.
Søren Pape Poulsen is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Danish Conservative Party. He has been the leader of the party since 2014. From 2016 to 2019 he served as Justice Minister of Denmark,and from 2009 to 2014 he served as mayor of Viborg Municipality.
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 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.
General elections were held in the Kingdom of Denmark on 1 November 2022,except in the Faroe Islands,where they were held on 31 October as 1 November was a national day of mourning for victims at sea. Of the 179 members of the Folketing,175 were elected in Denmark proper,two in the Faroes and two in Greenland. The elections were called on 5 October following an ultimatum to the government by the Social Liberal Party due to the outcome of a report on the 2020 Danish mink cull by the Mink Commission,which was critical of the government. Voter turnout was 84% in Denmark,48% in Greenland,and 71% in the Faroes with a combined turnout of 84% for the Realm as a whole.
Jakob Ellemann-Jensen is a Danish politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of Denmark and Minister of Defence since 2022. He has been the leader of Venstre since 2019. A member of the Folketing since the 2011 general election,he served as Minister for Environment and Food under Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen from 2 May 2018 to 27 June 2019. He was spokesman on political affairs for Venstre from 2015 to 2018 and again briefly in 2019.
Jens Henrik Winther Thulesen Dahl is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Denmark Democrats,and former member of the Danish People's Party. He was elected into parliament at the 2011 Danish general election.
Mikkel Bjørn Sørensen is a Danish politician and schoolteacher who since January 2023 has been a member of the Folketing for the Danish People's Party. From October 2016 to October 2021 he served as the first national chairman of his former party's youth wing Nye Borgerliges Ungdom. In April 2022 he became lead candidate for Nye Borgerlige on Funen for the up-coming election after previously having run in the municipal elections in Vejle Municipality and the 2019 general election in South Jutland Constituency. At the 2022 general election he was elected a member of the Folketing. He currently lives in Nyborg on Funen. Before he entered Parliament he taught history,Danish,social studies,and Christianity. Bjørn Sørensen has been described as having belonged to the more conservative branch of Nye Borgerlige.
The Denmark Democrats,officially Danmarksdemokraterne –Inger Støjberg,is a Danish political party founded in June 2022 by Inger Støjberg. In the 2022 election,the Denmark Democrats won 14 seats,thereby making them the 5th largest party alongside Liberal Alliance in the Folketing.
The 2020 Danish mink cull,commonly known as the Mink Case or Minkgate,was the government-mandated slaughter of all roughly 17 million mink that were being raised on farms for their fur in Denmark. The cull was in response to the detection of Cluster 5,an outbreak of a novel variant of SARS-CoV-2 in the mink,during the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark. The cluster led to concerns that the potential of spillover to humans could reduce the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. The cull began on 4 November 2020. It later became clear that the cull orders had been given without legal authority,causing a political scandal.
