Lotte Bundsgaard

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Lotte Bundsgaard (born January 20, 1973 in Nivå , Fredensborg municipality ) is a Danish journalist and politician of the Social Democrats . From December 2000 to November 2001 she was the Minister for Cities, Housing and Equality in her country.

Life

Bundsgaard is a trained teacher and worked as such from 1996 to 1998. Before that, from 1992 onwards, she was the deputy chairwoman of the youth organization Danmarks Socialdemokratiske Ungdom (DSU). On March 11, 1998, she entered the Danish parliament, the Folketing , for the first time . There she represented the constituency of Fyn until November 2007 . On December 21, 2000 she was appointed Minister for Cities, Housing and Equality in the Poul Nyrup Rasmussen IV government. At the age of 27, she became the youngest woman to take up a ministerial office in Denmark. She held this office until November 27, 2001. In parliament she worked for her party in various positions. From 1999 to 2000 as defense policy spokesperson, after her time as minister until 2004 as child policy spokesperson and most recently from 2005 to 2006 as political spokesperson for the parliamentary group. From 2002 to 2005 she was the party's deputy chairman. In spring 2007 she announced that she no longer wanted to run in the next parliamentary election, but instead wanted to become a journalist.

In April 2008, she announced that she had resigned from the Social Democratic Party. The reason she gave was that she wanted to be objective in her new job as a journalist. In 2009 she graduated from the Syddansk Universitet with a degree in political science . She began to work as a journalist for TV 2 for the Fyn area, where she was employed as a TV presenter, among other things.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Danmarks yngste minister. December 21, 2000, accessed February 9, 2020 (Danish).
  2. ↑ a b Lotte Bundsgård til TV 2 Fyn. October 27, 2009, accessed February 9, 2020 (Danish).
  3. ^ Vagn Erik Andersen: Lotte Bundsgaard forlader p. April 9, 2008, accessed on February 9, 2020 (Danish).
  4. ↑ Lotte Bundsgaard. In: altinget.dk. Retrieved February 9, 2020 (Danish).
personal data
SURNAME Bundsgaard, Lotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish politician and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th January 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Nivå , Fredensborg Municipality