Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen

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Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen (May 2011)

Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen (born February 22, 1984 in Odense ) is a Danish politician on the red-green Enhedsliste . She has been the political spokesperson for her parliamentary group for gender equality, integration, citizenship law and asylum since 2009 and the 2011 Folketing election .

Life

Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen grew up in Skalbjerg on Funen , attended the Katedralskolen high school in Odense and moved to Copenhagen in 2002 after graduating from university . From 2002 to 2003 she was vice-chairwoman of the Danish High School Students Association.

Between 2004 and 2007 she completed a social science bachelor's degree at the University of Roskilde (RUC). She then worked briefly as a kindergarten assistant in Frederiksberg . There she was elected works councilor and later works councilor for all educational assistants in the municipality of Frederiksberg .

Career as a politician

At the 2006 Enhedsliste party congress, Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen was elected to the party executive with the best personal result. In 2007 she moved into the Folketing as a member of parliament . In the elections it was able to unite the second most personal votes of all candidates nationwide. Only the future head of government Lars Løkke Rasmussen received more votes. In 2009 she was named the first female party spokesperson in the history of the Enhedsliste, which until then had not wanted to accept any dedicated leaders.

In the 2011 election campaign, Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen acted as a figure of identification for the party and, in surveys, was able to record high personal sympathy ratings, even among voters of other parties. While the established left party in Denmark, the Socialistisk Folkeparti , fell well short of its own expectations with 9.2 percent of the vote, Enhedslisten achieved a new record with Schmidt-Nielsen as the face of the election campaign and received 6.7 percent of the vote.

Political stance

In addition to her involvement in the trade union, party and parliament, Schmidt-Nielsen has also repeatedly worked as a political activist. She took part in the G8 summit protests in Prague , Brussels , Gothenburg and Rostock . In 2006 she took part in a media-effective protest against the dismantling of the welfare state, in which 200 kilograms of pasta and 40 liters of ketchup were distributed on the steps of the finance ministry. In 2007, Schmidt-Nielsen reported the men's magazine "Super" to being pimping because the paper was raffling off a meeting with a prostitute in a competition. After the Aller-Verlag canceled the competition, the politician withdrew her ad. Schmidt-Nielsen also took part in attention-grabbing protests against Denmark's participation in the Second Iraq War , against the unequal treatment of women and against the discrimination against homosexuals in Copenhagen. She is also committed to reforming copyright law , for which she received support from the Danish pirate movement .

Aliens Policy

Schmidt-Nielsen made a name for himself politically, especially in the field of foreigner policy . In 2009 she revealed that the then Minister of Integration, Birthe Rønn Hornbech, had kept key points of the deportation agreement between Denmark and Iraq secret. In 2011 she played a key role in the minister's dismissal by urging her or her staff to admit that her ministry had illegally denied naturalization in Denmark to a group of young, stateless Palestinians born in Denmark.

At the end of August 2016, Schmidt-Nielsen tried to travel to Nauru as part of a delegation from the Danish government to visit the Nauru Detention Center . She and other participants were not granted a visa, whereupon the entire delegation canceled their visit.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV at Folketinget.dk
  2. ↑ Portrait at Danmarks Radio http://www.dr.dk/fvkandidat/_profil.dr?kandidatId=100072
  3. ↑ Contribution to tv2.dk http://vip.tv2.dk/article.php/id-6341878.html
  4. ↑ Udlændingeservice på tilbagetog i sag om statsløse Information.dk, October 26, 2011, accessed on June 19, 2015.
  5. ^ Paul Farrell: "Danish delegation planning visit to Nauru detention center refused visas" The Guardian of August 30, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Nielsen, Johanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish politician (red-green Enhedsliste), member of the Folketing
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Odense , Funen