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 out of 179 members of the Danish parliament,Folketing,and three out of fourteen MEPs elected from Denmark.
Carl Theodor Zahle,was a Danish lawyer and politician who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1909 to 1910 and again from 1913 to 1920. In 1895,he was elected as a member of the lower chamber of the Danish parliament,the Folketing,for the Liberal Party (Venstrereformpartiet). A campaigner for peace,in 1905 he co-founded the Social Liberal Party together with other disgruntled members of Venstrereformpartiet. He continued on as a member of the Folketinget for Det Radikale Venstre until 1928,when he became a member of the upper chamber of parliament (Landsting). In 1929 he became Justice Minister,a post which he held until 1935.
The Danish Social Liberal Party is a social-liberal political party in Denmark. The party was founded as a split from the Venstre Reform Party in 1905.
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.
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.
Mette Frederiksen is a Danish politician who has served as Prime Minister of Denmark since June 2019,and Leader of the Social Democrats since June 2015. The second woman to hold either office,she is also the youngest prime minister in Danish history.
Uffe Elbæk is a Danish politician,social worker,author,journalist,entrepreneur. In 2013 he founded the green political party The Alternative,which he led until February 2020. He is an independent member of the Folketing.
Martin Lidegaard(born 12 December 1966 in Copenhagen) is a Danish politician who since 2022 has been political leader of the Social Liberal Party. He was Denmark's Foreign Minister in the government of Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt from 2014 to 2015,having previously been the Minister of Climate,Energy and Building from 2011 to 2014.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Greater Copenhagen is one of the 12 multi-member constituencies of the Folketing,the national legislature of Denmark. The constituency was established in 2007 following the public administration structural reform. It consists of the municipalities of Albertslund,Ballerup,Brøndby,Gentofte,Gladsaxe,Glostrup,Herlev,Høje-Taastrup,Hvidovre,Ishøj,Lyngby-Taarbæk,Rødovre and Vallensbæk. The constituency currently elects 11 of the 179 members of the Folketing using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2022 general election it had 371,085 registered electors.
The Mink Commission formally the Commission of Inquiry into the Case of the Culling of Mink is a Danish investigative commission set up by a majority in the Folketing in 2020 to investigate The Mink Case;A case about the culling of all minks in Denmark during the COVID-19 pandemic. It began its work 23 April 2021. The commission consists of national judge Michael Kistrup,who is chairman,as well as law professor Helle Krunke from the University of Copenhagen and lawyer Ole Spiermann from the firm Bruun &Hjejle.
Events in the year 2022 in Denmark.
The 2020 Danish mink cull,commonly known as the Mink Case or the Mink Scandal (Minkskandalen),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.
The Frederiksen II Cabinet (colloquially,the SVM government took office on 15 December 2022 and succeeded the Frederiksen I Cabinet following the 2022 Danish general election. Headed by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen,it is a grand coalition consisting of the Social Democrats,Venstre,and the Moderates. It was announced on 13 December following a record 42 days of negotiations. The government is supported by the Union Party and the Social Democratic Party from the Faroe Islands,as well as Siumut and Inuit Ataqatigiit from Greenland. The Social Liberals has also said that it intends to be neither a supporting party nor part of the opposition. As the government has 89 of the 179 seats in the Folketing,it effectively operates as a majority government.
