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 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.
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.
Venstres Ungdom is the youth wing of the Danish liberal Party Venstre.
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 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.
Karen Ellemann Kloch,formerly Karen Ellemann Karabian, is a Danish politician,who serves as the current Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers. She was previously a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. She is a former minister,having held the positions of Minister of Fisheries,Equality and Nordic Cooperation,Minister of the Environment and Minister of the Interior and Social Affairs.
Inger Beinov Støjberg is a Danish politician,businesswoman and former reporter who served as a government minister in the Danish Parliament.
Morten Løkkegaard is a Danish politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and the Danish Parliament intermittently since 2009. He has held his current position as a member of the European Parliament since 2016. He represents the Venstre political party and is affiliated with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
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,King Frederik X,is the head of state. Denmark is 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.
Michael Aastrup Jensen is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. He was elected into parliament at the 2005 Danish general election.
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.
Karsten Styrbæk Lauritzen is a former Danish politician,who was a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. He was first elected into parliament in the 2007 Danish general election and left the parliament on the 31 January 2022. He served as Minister of Taxation from 2015 to 2019.
Sophie Løhde Jacobsen is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. She has been a member of parliament since the 2007 Danish general election,and served as Minister of Health from 2015 to 2016,and Minister of Public Innovation from 2016 to 2019.
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 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 Party,the then–second largest party in the Swedish Riksdag. The Moderates' political position is referred to as centre to centre-right.
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.
