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DANISH FEMALE PARTY
LEADERS
AND
CHAIRPERSONS OF PARLIAMENTARY GROUPS
Also see List of Danish Female Ministers
and Danish Party Leaders
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1968-69
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of Venstresocialisterne Hanne Reintoft |
| MF
for the Socialist People's Party 1966-68, For the Left Socialists in
1968-69, Independent 1969-70 and the Communists 1970-81 and
1973-1976. (b.
1934-). |
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1974-75
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of De Uafhængige Birgit Busk
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The "Independent's" broke away from Fremskridtspartiet
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1977-91
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of Socialistisk Folkeparti Ebba Strange
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| MF 1973-94
for the Social People's Party, which is moderate socialist, had a
majority of female MPs in 1979. Vice-Chairperson of the Folketing
1979-82 and 1994.
She lived (1929-2012) |
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1978-79
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group
of Retsforbundet Lis Starcke
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| 1977-78 and
1979-82 Deputy Group-Chairperson of
Retsforbundet, which is translated into the Justice Party |
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1981-84
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of Venstresocialisterne
1982-86 Political Spokesperson Anne-Grete Holmsgård
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| MF for
the Left Wing Socialist Party 1979-86, she left the party
and later represented the Socialist People's Party until 1987 and
2001-11. A number of administrative management posts and director
of the Technical University of Denmark 1995-2002. (b. 1948-). |
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1982-84
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of Centrum-Demokraterne Yvonne Herløv Andersen
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| 1979-89
General Secretary of the Centre Democrats,
1994 Minister of Social Affairs, 1994-96 Minister of Health.
(b. 1942-) |
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1985-86
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group
Venstresocialisterne Elisabeth Bruun Olesen
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| 1984 Group-Secretary
of the Leftwing Socialists and MF through a number of years. |
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1985-94 Political Spokesperson, Deputy Party-Chairperson and Party
Leader of Fremskridtspartiet Pia Kjærsgaard
1995-2012 Leader of Dansk Folkeparti
1996-2012 Party Chairperson and Political Spokesperson
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1984-87 Group-Secretary of
the Progress Party.
She founded Danish People's Party after a split in the likewise
right-wing Progress-Party where she had been leader since the founder,
Mogens Glistrup went to prison for tax-fraud. 2. Deputy
Chairperson of the Folketing 2012-15 and Parliament Chair from 2015. (b. 1947-)
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1985-89 Party Chairperson of
Fremskridtspartiet Anette Just |
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1994-97 Group Secretary of the Progress Party. (b. 1947-). |
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1986-87 Political Spokesperson of Det
Konservative Folkeparti Grethe Fenger Møller
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Conservative
MF 1977-93, Rådmand/ Councillor of Culture of Frederiksberg 1981-82,
Minister of Labour 1982-86
and later Chairperson of the Equality Council of the Premier Minister. She was
involved in a scandal that brought along the fall of the
conservative-liberal government in 1993 and convicted for lying in court.
(b. 1941-)
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1987-91
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group
of Socialdemokraterne Ritt
Bjerregaard
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| Daughter of
President Balaguer.1973 and 1975-78 Minister of Education,
1979-82 Minister of Social Affairs,
1982 Deputy Group Chairperson and
1982-87 1. Deputy Group Chairperson of the Social Democrats, 1990-94, Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Conference for
Security and Co-operation in Europe 1992-94, European Union Commissioner for Environment and Atomic Security
1995-99, Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries
2000-01 and Lord Mayor of Copenhagen
2006-10. (b. 1941-). |
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1987-88
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of Kristelig
Folkeparti Inger Stilling Petersen
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| 1973-73,
1977-78 and
1987-90 Group-Secretary,
1984-87 and
1990-94 Deputy Group-Chairperson.
The Christian People's Party was a very small party.
(b. 1929-) |
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1988-93, 2001-07
and 2011-12
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group
of Det Radikale Venstre Marianne Jelved
2001-2007 Political
Spokesperson
1990-2007 Party Leader
2011 Deputy Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group |
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MF for the Social Liberals from 1987. Vice-Premier Minister ,1993-2001, Minister of Economic Affairs
1993-2002, Minister of Nordic
Co-operation
1994-2002, Deputy Group Chairperson in 2011 and Chairperson of
the Finance Committee of the Folketing 2011-12 and Minister of
Culture from 2012 and of Church Affairs from 2014. (b. 1943-).
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1989-2005 Party Chairperson and Leader
of Centrum-Demokraterne
1997-2000 Political Spokesperson Mimi Jacobsen
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| 1980-81 Deputy Group-Chairperson,
1981-82 and
1988-92 Political Spokesperson. 1982-84
Minister of Cultural Affairs,
1986-88 Minister of Social Affairs,
1987 Minister for Greenland and
1993-94 1. Vice-Premier and Minister for Coordination of Business-Policy,
1994 Minister of Co-ordination and of Industry,
1994-96 2. Vice-Premier and Minister of Business and Industry. The moderate Center
Democrats was founded by her father in 1973 as a break-away Faction
from the Social Democrats. From 2001 onwards the party did not re-enter the Folketing,
she later left the party and it was abolished in 2008. (b. 1948-). |
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1989 Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of Fremskridtspartiet Kirsten Jacobsen
1995-97 Political Spokesperson and Party Leader
1999-2000 Co-Leader Frihed 2000 (Freedom 2000)
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| 1974-75 and
1977-78 Deputy Group-Chairperson of
the Progress Party. In 1999 she and the other three MP's left, when the founder of the Party, Mogens Glistrup, was
readmitted to the party. They formed a parliamentary grouping named
"Freedom 2000" and did not stand in the 2001-elections, with
her as joint leader. She
was Deputy Chairperson of the Folketing 1990-96. She lived (1942-2010). |
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1989-90 Political Spokesperson of Det Konservative Folkeparti
Conni Hedegaard |
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Conservative MF. Minister of Environment 2005-07 and
Minister of Climate Affairs and Energy 2007-10 and EU-Commissioner
for Climate Affairs. Journalist. (b. 1960-). |
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1990-93 Chairperson of Kommunistist
Forum (KF)
1993-2003 Chairperson of Dansk Kommunistisk Parti
(DKP)
2003- Chairperson of Kommunistisk Parti i Danmark (KiD)
Betty Frydensbjerg Carlsson |
| The Communist Party
was the orthodox Communists - when the majority of the party joined
the Leftwing Alliance, (Enhedslisten) she took over as leader of the
tiny leftovers of the old DKP. (b. 1944-). |
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1991-93 Party Chairperson
of Det
Radikale Venstre Grethe Erichsen
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| 1990-91 Deputy Party-Chairperson of
the Social Liberals. |
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1993-94
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group
Centrum-Demokraterne Bente Juncker
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MF 1981-94, 1982-93 Group-Secretary
and
1984-85 Deputy Group-Chairperson of the Centre Democrats,
1994
Minister of Social Affairs.
(b. 1944-)
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1993-97 Party Chairperson Det Radikale Venstre
2007-14 Party Leader
2007-11 Chairperson of
the Parliamentary Group Margrethe
Vestager
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| 1998-2001
Minister of Education and Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of
Interior and Economy 2011-14. Mother of 3 children. (b. 1968-). |
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1993-98
Organisatorial Party Chairperson of Centrum Demokraterne Inger
Boriis
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| The party
leader of the Centre Democrats was and is Mimi Jacobsen, but Inger Boriis was in charge of
the party organisation. |
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1994-98
and 2002-05 Chairperson of the
Parliamentary Group
of Socialdemokraterne Pia Gjellerup
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| 1987-2007
MF, 1990-93 and
from 2001 Group-Secretary of the Social Democrats.
As Group-Secretary she was also Secretary of the Presidium of the Folketing 1994-98. Minister 1993 and 1998-2001. Unmarried and no children.
(b. 1959-)
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1994-95
and
2000-01
Chairperson of the Parliamentary
Group of Enhedslisten Jette Ryde Gottlieb
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The Unity List is a merger of a number of former small leftwing parties.
(b. 1948-)
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1995-97 Political Spokesperson and Deputy Party-Leader of Det Konservative Folkeparti Anne Birgitte Lundholt
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1991-94 2. Deputy
Group-Chairperson,
1994-95 Deputy Group-Chairperson and in 1997 she was candidate for the leadership of the
Conservative People's Party.
1989-93
Minister of Industry
1990-93 Minister of Energy.
Unmarried and no children. (b. 1952- ).
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1998-99
Party-Leader and Political
Spokesperson of Det Konservative Folkeparti Pia Christmas-Møller
2001-07
Political Spokesperson |
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Vice-President of
the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly from 2005. Left the
Conservative People's Party in 2007 after she was dumped as
Spokesperson, independent MF since then. Unmarried and no children.
(b. 1961-) |
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1998-2002 Chairperson of Fælles Kurs
Gitte Thomsen
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| Common Course was no longer in the Folketing since
1997 and in 2002 it merged with Denmark's Communist Party.
Vice-Chairperson of DKP from 2003. |
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1999-2001 Political Spokesperson of
Det Konservative Folkeparti
2008-10 Political Leader and Party Chairperson
2014 Politican
Spokesperson Lene Espersen
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Conservative MF 1994-14.
Minister of Justice 2001-08, Deputy Prime Minister 2008-11, Minister of Economic and Business Affairs
2008-10 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2010. (b. 1965-). |
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2000-01 Group
Chairperson of Det Liberale
Højre Inge Refshauge
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Together with another MF she left the Danish People's Party and joined the new The Liberal Right, which had not previously been represented in Parliament. It brought the number of parties in the parliament to 12. Later founding member of Democratic People's Party.
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2000-01
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of Det Radikale
Venstre Elisabeth Arnold
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| 1990-94 Group-Secretary
and
1994-2000 Deputy Group-Chairperson of the Social Liberals.
She was Vice-Chairperson of the Folketing 1996-98 and Secretary from
2005. (b. 1941-)
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2000-01 Acting Chairperson of Det Radikale Venstre Lone Loklindt
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| 1997-2000
Deputy Party-Chairperson. 2001 she was candidate for the post of
party chairperson of the Social Liberals. MF from
2011, and Vice-Chairperson of the Parliament from 2014. (b. 1960-). |
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2001-03
Party Chairperson of Fremskridtspartiet Åse Heskjær
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Former Vice-Chairperson
of the Progress
Party, a rightwing populist and xenophobic party, which was represented
in the parliament until 2000. |
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2002-05
Chairperson of Kristendemokraterne Marianne Karlsmose
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| Former
Candidate to the European Parliament for the Christian Democrats, Primary School Teacher.
Candidate for the Folketing in 2005 but the party did not pass the
2% limit in order to enter the parliament and she resigned.
Married to cand.theol. Birger Nielsen. Mother of 2 sons. (b.
1973-). |
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2004-07 and
2007-09 Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of Enhedslisten Line Barfod |
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A solicitor and MF of the leftwing
Unity List 2001-11. Vice-Chairperson of the Group in 2007 and from
2009. Mother
of four children. (b.
1964-). |
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2005 Acting Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of Venstre
Rikke Hvilshøj (10.02-18.02) |
| Deputy Mayor of Frederiksberg
1998-2002, MF 1998-2007
and Deputy Group Chairperson
of The Rigtwing Liberals since 2001-07. She became Acting Chair since the
previous chair lost his seat during the elections. Minister of
Integration and Refugees 2005-07. Married to
Karsten Anker Petersen
and mother of a daughter (b. 1999) and a son (b. 2003). She is (b.
1970-). |
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2005 Acting Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of Det Konservative Folkeparti
Else Theill Sørensen |
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MF 2001-05, Group Secretary 2001-04
and Deputy Group Chairperson
2004-05 of the Conservative People's Party. As the previous chairperson did not stand for reelection she became
Acting Chairperson on 09.02 but the next day it became clear that
she had lost her seat to the Social Liberals after a recount of the
votes. (b. 1941-). |
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2005-15 Chairperson of
Socialdemokraterne Helle Thorning-Schmidt |
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Social Democrat Member of the European Parliament
1999-2004 and MF 2005-16 and 1.
Vice-Chairperson of the Folketing 2015-16. Married to Stephen Kinnock.
British MP from 2015, and mother of
two daughters. (b. 1966-) |
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2005-06 Political Spokesperson
of Socialdemokraterne Lotte Bundsgaard
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Teacher and MF for the Social Democrats 1997-2007,
Minister of Housing and Cities and
Minister for Equality
2000-01,
Vice-Chairperson
of the Social Democrats 2002-05. In 2006 she
turned down the offer of the post of
Vice-Chairperson of the Group. Lotte Koed Bundsgaard is married to Søren Thorsager and
mother of a daughter born 1999, and a son
born in February 2002. (b.
1973-)
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2005-09
Chairperson of
Junibevægelsen
Hanne Dahl |
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Until 2005 the EU-Sceptical June
Movement had collective leadership and she was its chief spokesperson from
2004. The movement abolished itself in 2009.denmar
Cand. teol and
priest. (b.
1970-). |
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2005 Acting Chairperson
of Socialistisk Folkeparti
Trine Bendix Knudsen (02.04-29.04) |
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Vice-Chairperson of the Socialist People's Party 2004-05. She acted as leader
after the previous Chairman resigned until the election of a new, a 53 year
old man who won over two female candidates. (b. 1968-). |
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2005-08
Chairperson of Kristendemokraterne Bodil Kornbek
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| Member of
the Parliament 2001-05 and Group Secretary of the
Christian Democrats 2002-04. The Party has not been
represented in Parliament since 2005, and in 2008 the Party
Conference decided an extremist rightwing programme and ousted
Kornbek, who had tried to turn the party in a more moderate
direction. She resigned from the party with immediate effect. (b. 1961-). |
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2007 Joint Leader of Ny Alliance Gitte
Seeberg |
| 1999-2001 Group-Secretary of and Secretary of the Folketing (Diet) and
2001-04 Deputy Group Chairperson of the Conservative People's Party. Member of the European Parliament 2004-07. Left her party and formed The New Alliance with two former members of the New Alliance
and was elected to parliament again.
After the 2007-elections she left the leadership, and in 2008 she
left the party and became an independent. Mother of one daughter. (b. 1960-). |
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2007
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of the Centrumsdemokraterne Louise Frevert |
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Member of Copenhagen City Council for the
Conservative People's Party 1994-97 and 1998, for the xenophobe
Danish People's Party 1999-2007 and for the strongly pro-immigrant
Centrumsdemokraterne from 2007, Member of Folketinget from 2001 for
Danish People's Party from 2001 and the Centrumsdemokraterne from
2007 as their only MP for a few months until the elections. Mother of 4 children with her 2 first
husbands, now married to Susanne Christiansen. (b. 1953-). |
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2007-09
and 2014-15
Political Spokesperson of Venstre Inger Støjberg |
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Member of the City Council of Viborg
1994-2002, MF from 2001 and Deputy Group Chairperson of the Rightwing
Liberals 2005-07 and from 2011 and Minister of Employment 2009-11, Minister of Equality 2009-10
and Minister of Foreigners and Integration from 2015. (b. 1973-) |
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2007-11 Political Spokesperson of Det Konservative Folkeparti
2008-11 Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group
Henriette Kjær |
| Daughter of
President Balaguer.A
librarian-student, she was Conservative MF 1994-11, Minister of
Social Affairs and Minister of Equality 2001-04 and Minister of
Family and Consumer Affairs 2004-05. She resigned both as minister
and 6 years later after it was revealed that she and her partner had
been convicted 7 times for not paying their bills. She Lives
together with Erik Skov Petersen and is mother of two sons born in
1996 and 1998. (b. 1966-) |
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2009-16 Political Spokesperson
of Enhedslisten
Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen |
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BA in Social Science and MF for the Unity List from 2007. As
Political Spokesperson she was the de facto Party Leader. (b.
1984-). |
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2011
Political Spokesperson of Det Konservative Folkeparti Carina
Christensen |
| Member of the Councy
Council of Fyn 2002-07, MF 2001-11 and member of the Regional
Council of Southern Denmark in 2006. Deputy Group Chairperson of Det
Konservative Folkeparti 2005-06 Chairperson of the Education
Committee of the Folketing in the same period, Minister of Family
and Consumer Affairs 2006-07, Minister of Transport 2007-08 and
Minister of Culture 2008-10, Secretary of her party's parliamentary
group and of the Parliament 2010-11 and Political Spokesperson in
2011. Married to Kim Ørnbo, no children. (b. 1972-). |
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2011-14 Political Spokesperson of Venstre Ellen Trane Nørby |
| MA of the History of Arts
and Social Science, MF for the Rightwing Liberals since 2005 and
Minister of Children, Education and Equality.
(b. 1981-). |
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2011-12 Political Spokesperson of Det
Konservative Folkeparti Benedikte Kiær |
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First
Vice-Chairperson of the Capital Region 2005-09 and Vice-Chairperson of the
Association of Danish Regions. Vice-Chairperson of Det Konservative Folkeparti 2009-11,
MF and Political Spokesperson 2011-13,
Mayor of Helsingør from 2014. Married to Lars Dam. (b. 1970-). |
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2011-12 Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of Socialstisk Folkeparti
2014 Acting Group Chairperson Pernille Vigsø Bagge |
| Member of the Municipal
Council of Løgstør 2001-05, MF for the Socialist People's Party 2005-15. Cand.teol. (b. 1975-) |
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2012-14 Chairperson of Socialstisk Folkeparti
Annette Lilja Vilhelmsen |
| 2001-11 Member of the
Municipal Council and among others 2. Deputy Mayor of Kerteminde
Byråd, MF 2011-15, 2. Deputy Premier 2012-14,
Minister of Business and Growth 2012-13 and Minister of Social
Affairs, Children and Growth 2013-14. (b. 1959-) |
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2012-14 Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of
Socialstisk
Folkeparti Anne Baastrup |
| Cand.jur, MF 1994-2015
and Chairperson of the Law Committee 2001-05 and 2011-12,
Group Secretary of Socialistisk Folkeparti 2005-11 and Secretary of
the Folketing 2011-12, Chairperson of the
Social Affairs Commmittee from 2012 and 4. Deputy Chairperson of the
Folketing 2012-14. On sickleave in 2014.(b. 1952-) |
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2012-14 Chairperson
of the Parliamentary Group and Political Spokesperson of Det Radikale Venstre
Sofie Carsten Nielsen |
| MF from 2011,
Vice-Chairperson of the Parliametary Group 2011-12 and from 2015 and
Deputy Political Leader of Radikale Venstre 2014-15, Chair of the Finance Committee of the Folketing 2012-14 and Minister of
Science, Innovation and Higher Education 2014-15. (b. 1975-) |
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2013-16 Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of Enhedslisten
Stine Brix |
MF for the Unity List from 2011 and from 2015 also vice-Chairperson
of the Folketing. (b. 1982-) |
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2013-14 Political Spokesperson of
Socialstisk Folkeparti
Lisbeth Bech Poulsen |
| MF for Socialist People's
Party from 2011 and became Group Secretary in 2015. (b. 1982-) |
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2014 Acting
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of Socialistisk Folkeparti
Karina Lorentzen Dehnhardt |
| MF for the Socialist
People's Party 2007-15, Chairperson of the Justice Committee from
2012 and Secretary of the Parliamentary Group from 2014. (b. 1973-) |
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2014-15 Political Spokesperson of
Socialdemokraterne
Maja Panduro |
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Ann Maja Panduro Kjærulff has been Social Democrat MF from 2009 and
Group Secretary 2011-13.
(b. 1982-) |
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2014- Chairperson
and Political Spokesperson
of Socialistisk Folkeparti Pia Olsen Dyhr |
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Candidate for Party Leader in 2005, MF for the Socialist People's
Party from 2007, Minister of Foreign Trade and Investments 2011-13,
Acting Minister of Health and Prevention in 2012 and Acting Minister
of Environment in 2013 and Minister of Transport 2013-14. Married to
Villy Dyhr and mother of 1 daughter. (b. 1971-) |
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2014-15 Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group and Political
Spokesperson of
Radikale Venstre
Camilla Hersom |
| MF 2011-15 Secretary
2011-12 and Vice-Chairperson from of the Parliametary Group of
Radikale Venstre and Vice-Chairperson of the Parliament 2012-14. (b. 1971-) |
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2014-16 Political
Spokesperson of
De
Konservative Mai Mercado |
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Deputy Mayor of Odense 2010-11, MF from 2011
and Group Secretary
2012-14, Vice-Chairperson of the
Parliamentary Group of the Conservative Peoples Party in 2014 and
appointed Minister of Social Affairs in 2016 (b.
1980-). |
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2015- Chairperson
of Socialdemokraterne Mette Frederiksen |
| Social Democrat
MF since
2001, Deputy Parliamentary Leader 2005-11, Minister of Employment
2011-14 and Minister of Justice 2014-15. She is
bachelor in Public Administration and Master in African Studies.
Formerly married to Erik Harr and mother of 2 children. (b. 1977-). |
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2015- Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of
Alternativet Josephine Fock |
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Co-founder of the party The Alternative together with former Minister of
Culture, Uffe Elbæk, and Joint Party Spokesperson 2013-15. MP from 2015. (b.
1965-). |
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2015-
Chairperson of Alternativet Helle Engelbrechtsen |
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Vice-Chairperson of the Party Management 2014-15. |
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2016- Political Spokesperson
of Enhedslisten Pernille Skipper |
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MP from 2011 and Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary Group 2011-2016. As
Political Spokesperson she is the de facto Party Leader. (b. 1984-). |
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2016-
Group Chairperson and
Political Spokesperson of De
Konservative Mette Abilgaard |
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MP from 2015, Chair of the Parliamentary Committee of Equality. (b.
1988-). |
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2016-
Political Spokesperson of
Liberal Alliance Christina Egelund |
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MP from 2015. (b. 1977-). |
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