Jane Vallebo Thorngaard Heitmann (born 5 November 1968 in
Copenhagen
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) is a Danish politician, who is a member of the
Folketing
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for the Venstre political party. She was elected into parliament at the
2011 Danish general election
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.
The incumbent centre-right coalition led b ...
. On 2 June 2023, she was elected as president of Krifa, a Danish unemployment insurance fund and trade union.
Political career
Heitmann was in the municipal council of Faaborg Municipality from 2006 and until 2007 where it was merged with the municipalities of Broby, Ringe,
Ryslinge
Ryslinge is a town with a population of 1,876 (1 January 2024)Ã…rslev
Ã…rslev is a town in central Denmark on the island of Funen. It was located in Ã…rslev Municipality, until 1 January 2007 when it became part of Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality.
The town has a population of 4,447 (1 January 2025).Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality. She sat in the municipal council in this new municipality from its foundation in 2007 and until 2017, where local political Ole Pedersen took over her seat.
Heitmann was first elected into the Folketing at the 2011 election, where she received 4,196 votes. She was reelected in
2015
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with 4,677 votes and in
2019
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