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Greater Copenhagen (Folketing Constituency)
Greater Copenhagen () is one of the 12 multi-member Constituencies of Denmark, 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 Denmark, municipalities of Albertslund Municipality, Albertslund, Ballerup Municipality, Ballerup, Brøndby Municipality, Brøndby, Gentofte Municipality, Gentofte, Gladsaxe Municipality, Gladsaxe, Glostrup Municipality, Glostrup, Herlev Municipality, Herlev, Høje-Taastrup Municipality, Høje-Taastrup, Hvidovre Municipality, Hvidovre, Ishøj Municipality, Ishøj, Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality, Lyngby-Taarbæk, Rødovre Municipality, Rødovre and Vallensbæk Municipality, Vallensbæk. The constituency currently elects 11 of the 179 members of the Folketing using the Open list, open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2022 Danish general election, 2022 general election it had 37 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folketing
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, the Folketing was the lower house of the bicameral parliament called the Rigsdag until 1953; the upper house was the Landsting. The Folketing meets in Christiansborg Palace, on the islet of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen. It passes all laws, approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government. It is also responsible for adopting the state's budgets and approving the state's accounts. As set out in the Constitution of Denmark, the Folketing shares power with the reigning monarch. But in practice, the monarch's role is limited to signing laws passed by the legislature; this must be done within 30 days of adoption. The Folketing consists of 179 members; including two from Greenland and two from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Statistics Denmark
Statistics Denmark () is a Danish governmental organization under the Ministry of the Interior and Housing, reporting to the Minister of Economic and Internal Affairs. The organization is responsible for creating statistics on the Danish society, including employment statistics, trade balance, and demographics. Statistics Denmark relies heavily on public registers for statistical production, with a particular emphasis on the Central Person Register for population statistics. Statistics Denmark's electronic data bank (Statbank.dk) is available freely in Danish or English to any user. It contains nearly all in-house produced statistics, which can be presented as cross-tables, diagrams, or maps, and can be exported to other programs for further analysis. When new general statistics are published in News from Statistics Denmark, the same data is simultaneously released in a more detailed format through the data bank. History The first population census in Denmark was conducted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasmus Lund-Nielsen
Rasmus Lund-Nielsen (born 21 October 1988) is a Danish politician and Member of the Folketing for Greater Copenhagen from the Moderates. Alongside sixteen other members of The Moderates, Lund-Nielsen was elected to the Folketing in November 2022. He is his party's spokesperson on children, education, psychiatry and well-being. References See also * List of members of the Folketing, 2022–present This is a list of the 179 Member of the Folketing, members of the Parliament of Denmark, Folketing in the 2022 session. They were elected at the 2022 Danish general election. Election results Seat distribution Below is the distribution o ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Lund-Nielsen, Rasmus 1988 births Living people Politicians from Copenhagen Members of the Folketing 2022–2026 Moderates (Denmark) politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Alliance (Denmark)
The Liberal Alliance (LA; ) 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. From November 2016 to June 2019, the Liberal Alliance (I) was part of the Lars Løkke Rasmussen III Cabinet a three-party coalition government, alongside Liberal Party () and the Conservative People's Party (). At the 2022 Danish general election, the party won 14 seats. It has 15 seats after Pernille Vermund chose to join the party. History New Alliance (2007–2009) The party was founded as the New Alliance () da on 7 May 2007 by MP Naser Khader and MEP Anders Samuelsen from the Social Liberal Party and Gitte Seeberg, a Conservative People's Party MEP. The party supported the government of the Venstre and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steffen Larsen
Steffen Larsen (born 5 December 1983) is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Liberal Alliance. He was elected into the Folketing in the 2022 Danish general election General elections were held in the Danish Realm, 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 Fo .... References Living people 1983 births People from Kolding Liberal Alliance (Denmark) politicians Members of the Folketing 2022–2026 {{Denmark-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasper Sand Kjær
Kasper Sand Kjær (born 4 May 1989) is a Danish politician who was a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. He was first elected into parliament in the 2019 Danish general election. Kjær was elected into parliament in the 2019 election, where he received 3,065 personal votes. Re-elected in 2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ..., he resigned in November 2023. References External links Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget) {{DEFAULTSORT:Kjaer, Kasper Sand Living people 1989 births People from Randers Social Democrats (Denmark) politicians Members of the Folketing 2019–2022 Members of the Folketing 2022–2026 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative People's Party (Denmark)
The Conservative People's Party (, DKF), also known as The Conservatives () is a Centre-right politics, centre-right List of political parties in Denmark, political party in Denmark. The party is a member of the International Democracy Union and the European People's Party. History The party was founded in 1916 based mostly on its predecessor, ''Højre'' ("Right") after its downfall, but also on the Free Conservatives and a moderate faction of the liberal party Venstre (Denmark), ''Venstre'' ("Left"). The party was a part of the coalition government during Denmark in World War II, World War II, where the leader John Christmas Møller provided the voice for BBC London's daily radio to Denmark. However, while a number of conservatives participated in the resistance movement, some conservatives were sympathetic to Fascism, fascist ideology, and the Young Conservatives (Denmark), youth wing of the party praised several fascist movements in Europe during the 1930s. Since World Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasmus Jarlov
Rasmus Jarlov (born 29 April 1977) is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Conservative People's Party. He was elected into parliament at the 2015 Danish general election, and formerly sat from 2010 to 2011. He is a former Minister of Business Affairs. Political career Jarlov was a temporary member of parliament from 12 January 2010 to 31 August 2010, acting as substitute for Charlotte Dyremose Charlotte Baunbæk Dyremose (born 9 October 1977) is a Danish Conservative People's Party (Denmark), Conservative politician and a Church of Denmark pastor. She was a member of the Folketing (Danish parliament) from 2001 to 2011 and from 2013 to 2 .... On 1 September 2010 Henrik Rasmussen resigned his seat and Jarlov took over the seat. He sat in parliament for the remainder of the term. He was elected into parliament again at the 2015 election. From 2018 to 2019 he was Minister of Business Affairs. External links Biography on the website of the Danish Parlia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Durhuus
Maria Staghøj Durhuus (born 25 September 1977) is a Danish politician and member of the Folketing, the national legislature. A Social Democrat, she has represented Greater Copenhagen since November 2022. Durhuus was born on 25 September 1977 in Ringkøbing. She is the daughter of Hans Arne Staghøj and educator Lilian Steffensen. She was educated at Thisted Gymnasium og HF and studied nursing. She was a nurse at various establishments from 2006 to 2019. She worked for Copenhagen City Council's Thorupgården housing scheme from 2020 to 2022. She was a member of the municipal council in Hvidovre Municipality Hvidovre Municipality () is a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in the Capital Region near Copenhagen on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 22 km2, and has a total population of 53,760 ... from 2013 to 2022. Durhuus has four sons. References External links 1977 births Danish municipal councillors Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeppe Bruus
Jeppe Bruus Christensen (born 20 April 1978) is a Danish politician who is a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats. He was elected to parliament at the 2019 Danish general election. He was previously a member of parliament between 2014 and 2015. Political career Bruus first ran for parliament in the 2011 election, where he received 2,706 votes. While not enough for a seat in parliament, it made him the Social Democrats' primary substitute in the Greater Copenhagen constituency. During the 2011-2015 term he was a temporary member of the Folketing, acting as substitute for Sophie Hæstorp Andersen from 5 November 2013 to 3 December 2013. When Hæstorp Andersen was elected as chairman of the Capital Region of Denmark in the 2013 local election, she resigned her seat. As the party's primary substitute of the constituency, Bruus took over the seat and completed the remainder of the term. Bruus ran again in the 2015 election. He received 2,806 votes and again became the So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democrats (Denmark)
The Social Democrats ( , , S) is a Social democracy, social democratic list of political parties in Denmark, political party in Denmark. A member of the Party of European Socialists, the Social Democrats have 50 out of 179 members of the Danish parliament (following the 2022 Danish general election, latest Danish general election held in 2022), Folketing, and three out of fourteen Member of the European Parliament, MEPs elected from Denmark. Founded by Louis Pio in 1871, the party first entered the Folketing in the 1884 Danish Folketing election. By the early 20th century, it had become the party with the largest representation in the Folketing, a distinction it would hold for 77 years. It first formed a government after the 1924 Danish Folketing election under Thorvald Stauning, the longest-serving List of Prime Ministers of Denmark, Danish Prime Minister of the 20th century. During Stauning's government which lasted until the 1926 Danish Folketing election, the Social Democrats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morten Bødskov
Morten Bødskov (born 1 May 1970) is a Danish Social Democratic politician, member of the Folketing, and the Minister for Business since 2022. He was Minister of Defence from February to December 2022 and Minister for Taxation under Frederiksen and Minister of Justice in the Government of Helle Thorning-Schmidt. Political career Early beginnings At age 15 Bødskov joined the Social Democratic Youth of Denmark (DSU), where he quickly assumed numerous positions of trust. In 1996, he took over as federal president of the DSU from Henrik Sass Larsen. In 2001, he was elected to the Folketing and in 2005 Helle Thorning-Schmidt appointed him as deputy chairman of the parliamentary group. Career in government From 3 October 2011 to 11 December 2013, Bødskov served as Minister of Justice. As Minister of Justice, Bødskov was among those who spearheaded austerity measures, new restrictions on air guns, a new Probation system and the creation of 200 new prison spots, an increased focus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
