Jann Sjursen (born 23 October 1963, in

Næstved Næstved () is a town in Næstved Municipality, the municipality of the same name, located in the southern part of the island of Zealand (Denmark), Zealand in Denmark. Næstved has several adult education centers, five Primary education, elemen ...

) is a teacher and a Danish

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representing the Christian People's Party. In 1986 he was elected secretary general of the Nordic Christian Democratic Youth and from 1987 till 1989 he was chairman of the Christian People's Party's Youth. In 1990 he was elected party leader at only 26 years of age. This signified a change of the parties profile and themes such as the environment were emphasized more. He stayed party leader till 2002. Together with

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, his predecessor as party leader, he entered the first government of

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen Poul Oluf Nyrup Rasmussen (, informally Poul Nyrup, born 15 June 1943) is a retired Danish politician, who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 25 January 1993 to 27 November 2001 and President of the Party of European Socialists (PES) from ...

in 1993 as Minister of Energy.Wim Verseput, Deense Christelijke Volkspartij vecht voor come-back. J&P 95/3. After his political career he was secretary general of the humanitarian and development agency

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. He left the party in 2007 because of his disagreement with the party's approach to abortion.

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Jann Sjursen
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