Josephine Fock

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Josephine Fock (2014)

Josephine Fock (born September 5, 1965 in Aarhus ) is a Danish lawyer and politician of the left-green party Alternativet . She has been the party's political leader since March 2020.

Life

Fock studied law at Aarhus University from 1987 to 1993 . She then worked for the composers' rights organization Koda until 1994, before joining the psychological association Dansk Psykolog Forenig . From 1996 to 1999 she was chief advisor at the academics organization Akademikernes Centralorganisation and then until 2007 chief negotiator at the Nursing Union Dansk Sygeplejeråd and secretarial manager at the trade union umbrella organization for the health sector, the Sundhedskartellet . Until 2015 she was secretary manager at the Association of Public Employees ( Offentlige Ansattes Organizer ).

On November 27, 2013, Fock and the former Minister of Culture, Uffe Elbæk, presented the newly founded alternative party . Fock represented the constituency of East Jutland in the Folketing national parliament from June 2015 to October 2018 , after her party won mandates in the 2015 election with 4.8 percent of the vote. During this time she was the financial and legal policy spokeswoman for her party as well as for foreigners, integration and the Basic Law. Furthermore, she acted as the parliamentary group leader of the alternative. After her time in parliament, she was director of the refugee aid organization Dansk Flygtningehjælp from 2018 to 2019 .

After internal disputes in the party, party leader Uffe Elbæk resigned his post as party leader in December 2019 and Fock announced that he would run for the post. On February 1, 2020, she was elected the party's new political leader at a party congress. As a result, four of the five Alternativet MPs in the Folketing resigned from the party. The party founder Elbæk was one of these politicians. Only Torsten Gejl remained in the party.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Previous history. In: Alternative. Retrieved April 4, 2020 (Danish).
  2. ^ Agnete Finnemann Scheel: Josephine Fock vil være leder af alternative. In: DR. January 7, 2020, accessed on April 4, 2020 (Danish).
  3. ^ Agnete Finnemann Scheel: Josephine Fock er Alternativets nye politiske leder. In: DR. February 1, 2020, accessed on April 4, 2020 (Danish).
  4. ↑ Gwyn Nissen: Alternative meltdown. In: The North Schleswig. March 11, 2020, accessed April 4, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Oliver Batchelor, Andreas Nygaard, Rasmus Lindegård Hansen: Alternativet i opløsning: Uffe Elbæk går fra sit eget parti. In: DR. March 9, 2020, accessed on April 4, 2020 (Danish).
  6. ↑ Gejl fortsätter solo i Folketinget for Alternativet. In: Berlingske. March 12, 2020, accessed April 4, 2020 (Danish).
personal data
SURNAME Fock, Josephine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarhus