Anders Fogh Rasmussen is a Danish politician who was the 24th Prime Minister of Denmark from November 2001 to April 2009 and the 12th Secretary General of NATO from August 2009 to October 2014. He became CEO of political consultancy Rasmussen Global and founded the Alliance of Democracies Foundation. He serves as a Senior Adviser to Citigroup. He also served as a senior advisor at The Boston Consulting Group.
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 Social Democrats is a social-democratic political party in Denmark. A member of the Party of European Socialists (PES),the Social Democrats have 50 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 Landstinget. 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.
There are three types of elections in Denmark:elections to the national parliament,local elections,and elections to the European Parliament. Referendums may also be called to consult the Danish citizenry directly on an issue of national concern.
Ulla Pedersen Tørnæs is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Liberal Party. She previously sat in parliament from 1994 to 2014,and served as member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2016. She served as Minister for Development Cooperation from 2016 to 2019,Minister of Higher Education and Science in 2016,Minister of Development Cooperation from 2005 to 2010 and Minister of Education from 2001 to 2005.
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.
Gitte Seeberg is a Danish politician,lawyer,and current secretary general of the Danish branch of the WWF. She was a member of the Danish Folketinget parliament for the Conservative People's Party and New Alliance,and has previously been a Member of the European Parliament.
Margrethe Vestager is a Danish politician currently serving as Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age since December 2019 and European Commissioner for Competition since 2014. Vestager is a member of the Danish Social Liberal Party,and of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE) on the European level.
Naser Khader is a Syrian-Danish politician who is a member of the Folketing as an independent politician. Until 2021 he was a member of the Conservative People's Party.
The Liberal Alliance is a classical liberal and right-libertarian political party in Denmark. Following the 2022 general election,the party received 14 seats in the Folketing,making it the third largest party in the blue (right) bloc.
General elections were held in Denmark on 13 November 2007. The elections allowed prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to continue for a third term in a coalition government consisting of Venstre and the Conservative People's Party with parliamentary support from the Danish People's Party. They were the first elections held using the current constituencies.
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 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.
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.
Mette Bock is a Danish political scientist,journalist and former politician. She was a member of the Folketing from 2011 to 2019,representing the Liberal Alliance party. She served as Minister of Culture and Church from 2016 to 2019.
Alex Dominique Kristensen Vanopslagh is a 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.
