Lennart Damsbo-Andersen (born 5 October 1956 in Ovsted Parish near

Skanderborg Skanderborg is a town in Skanderborg Municipality, Denmark. It is situated on the north and north eastern brinks of Skanderborg Lake and there are several smaller ponds and bodies of water within the city itself, like Lillesø, Sortesø, Døj S ...

) is a Danish politician, who is a member of the

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for the

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political party. He was elected into parliament at the

2007 Danish general election General elections were held in Denmark on 13 November 2007. The elections allowed Prime minister of Denmark, prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to continue for a third term in a coalition government consisting of Venstre (Denmark), Venstre and ...

Political career

Damsbo-Andersen's political career began with local politics. He was in the municipal council of Nysted Municipality from 1993 until the municipality was merged with five other municipalities to form Guldborgsund Municipality in 2006. He was a member of the new municipality from 2006 to 2007. From 2002 to 2006 he was the mayor of Nysted Municipality. Damsbo-Andersen first ran for parliament in the 2007 general election, where he was elected with 5,731 votes. He was reelected in

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

with 6,662 votes, in

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

with 5,902 votes and in

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

with 5,648 votes.Dst.dk
"Valgte kandidater og stedfortrædere, Folketingsvalg onsdag 5. juni 2019" Retrieved 31 January 2021

External links

Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget)

References

Living people 1956 births People from Skanderborg Municipality Social Democrats (Denmark) politicians Danish municipal councillors Mayors of places in Denmark Members of the Folketing 2007–2011 Members of the Folketing 2011–2015 Members of the Folketing 2015–2019 Members of the Folketing 2019–2022 {{Denmark-politician-stub