Rasmus Nordqvist (born 18 July 1975 in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

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

Folketing The Folketing ( da, Folketinget, ; ), 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 an ...

for the Socialist People's Party. He was elected into parliament in the

2015 Danish general election General elections were held in the Kingdom of Denmark on 18 June 2015 to elect the 179 members of the Folketing. 175 members were elected in the Denmark proper, two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland. Although the ruling Social Democrats b ...

as a member of The Alternative, but changed party to the SPP in 2020.

Political career

Nordqvist was elected into parliament as a member of The Alternative in the 2015 election. He was reelected in

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, but left the party shortly after - along with

Uffe Elbæk Uffe Elbæk (born 15 June 1954) is a Danish politician, social worker, author, journalist, entrepreneur. In 2013 he founded the green political party The Alternative, which he led until February 2020. He is an independent member of the Folketin ...

, Sikandar Siddique and Susanne Zimmer. The three other former Alternative members went on to found a new party, while Nordqvist instead remained independent for two months before joining the Socialist People's Party.

References

External links

Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget)
Living people 1975 births Politicians from Copenhagen Socialist People's Party (Denmark) politicians The Alternative (Denmark) politicians Members of the Folketing 2015–2019 Members of the Folketing 2019–2022 {{Denmark-politician-stub