Søren Gade Jensen is a Danish politician who has been Speaker of the Folketing since November 2022,representing the Liberal party,Venstre. He was a Liberal member of the Folketing from 2001 to 2019 and again in 2022. Before entering politics,he was a military officer and businessman. He was formerly a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2022.
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.
The Liberal Alliance is a classical liberal and right-libertarian political party in Denmark. The party is a component of the centre-right bloc in Danish politics. The party's platform is based upon economic liberalism,promotion of tax cuts and reduction of welfare programmes,and a critical,oppositional stance towards European integration.
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.
Martin Henriksen is a Danish politician and former MP,representing the Danish People's Party in Parliament from 8 February 2005 to 5 June 2019 in various constituencies,but left the party in 2022 after losing the election for party leadership. In 2023,he joined the New Right party.
Nye Borgerlige is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Denmark. Formed by Pernille Vermund and Peter Seier Christensen in 2015,the party first entered the Danish Parliament,the Folketing,in the 2019 general election with four seats and again in the 2022 general election with six seats. After three defections in the first months after the election,by March 2023 the party's number of seats in the Folketing was reduced to three.
The Kundby case was a 2016 plan to bomb two schools in Denmark,including a Jewish school in Copenhagen. The plan was made by a 15-year-old Danish girl from Kundby,Denmark named Natascha Colding-Olsen. The police found chemicals to create a bomb in her home in Kundby.
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 Liberals 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.
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.
Ann Pernille Vermund Bretton-Meyer is a Danish architect (MAA) and politician known for co-founding and being the leader of the national-conservative political party Nye Borgerlige since its founding in 2015,apart from the period February–October 2023. Before the founding of Nye Borgerlige,she was affiliated with the Conservative People's Party. Since 2019,she is a member of the Folketing.
The Frederiksen I Cabinet took office on 27 June 2019 and succeeded the Lars Løkke Rasmussen III Cabinet following the 2019 Danish general election. Headed by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen,it was a minority government consisting of the Social Democrats. It relied on parliamentary support from the Red–Green Alliance,the Socialist People's Party,and the Social Liberal Party.
Jakob Ellemann-Jensen is a Danish former politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Denmark and Minister of Defence under Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen from 2022 to 2023. He led the Venstre party from 2019 to 2023.
The 2024 European Parliament election in Denmark will be held on 9 June 2024. The elections will be held as part of the wider 2024 European Parliament election,but will not take place in the Faroe Islands or Greenland,which are not part of the European Union.
Mette Thiesen is a Danish politician and former schoolteacher who has been a member of the Folketing since June 2019,at first representing the Nye Borgerlige political party,but from November 2022 being an independent,and from February 2023 representing the Danish People's Party.
The Moderates is a liberal political party in Denmark founded by former Prime Minister and current Minister of Foreign Affairs Lars Løkke Rasmussen. He announced the name in a foundational speech on 5 June 2021. At the same time,he said that his main scenario was that the party would be formed after the 2021 Danish local elections. The name was,according to Rasmussen,inspired by the fictitious Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg's party Moderaterne in the hit political TV drama Borgen as well as the Swedish Moderate Coalition Party,the then–second largest party in the Swedish Riksdag. The Moderates' political position is referred to as centre to centre-right.
Mikkel Bjørn Sørensen is a Danish politician and former teacher. In November 2022,he became a member of the Folketing for the Nye Borgerlige (NB) party,but in January 2023 changed his party allegiance to the Danish People's Party (DF). Formerly,in 2016-2021 he was the first national chairman of Nye Borgerliges youth wing. Growing up near Juelsminde in Jutland,Bjørn has since 2022 lived in Nyborg on Funen.
Nye Borgerliges Ungdom (NBU) is the youth wing of the Danish political party Nye Borgerlige. It was founded in 2015 as "Unge Nye Borgerlige" and changed to its present name the following year. In 2022,the NBU had a little less than 600 members. Its chairman as of July 2023 is Tenna Røberg.
Events in the year 2023 in Denmark.
