Martha Lund Olsen

Martha Lund Olsen (born April 28, 1961 in Upernavik ) is a Greenlandic politician ( Siumut ).

Life

Martha Lund Olsen is the younger sister of the politician Johan Lund Olsen . She was trained as a social counselor and therapist in Copenhagen and then studied at the Social University in Copenhagen and at Ilisimatusarfik in Nuuk .

She first competed in the Inatsisartut 2013 election to gain a seat in parliament. However, she missed this goal with only 64 votes. Nevertheless, she was subsequently appointed by Aleqa Hammond as Minister of Justice and Family Affairs in the Hammond I cabinet and shortly thereafter in the Hammond II cabinet . On October 3, 2014, she was also appointed interim Minister for Education, Church, Culture and Equality.

Less than two months later, the parliamentary elections took place, in which Martha Lund Olsen received 226 votes, the fourth most of all Siumut candidates. This was the first time she moved into Inatsisartut . By Kim Kielsen it was then the Cabinet Kielsen I called, where she was appointed social, family and equality minister. On May 23, 2016, she also took over the justice department from Mala Høy Kúko . In October 2016, the Kielsen II cabinet was set up, where Martha Lund Olsen was appointed Minister for Municipalities, Villages (Interior), Infrastructure and Housing.

In January 2017, she told Kim Kielsen that she wanted to run in the 2017 local elections, whereupon he dismissed her as Minister on January 27, to her surprise. She then took her seat in Parliament. In May she achieved the most votes for the Siumut in the Sermersooq communeqarfik with 482 votes and thus a seat on the local council, but had to admit defeat to the incumbent Mayor Asii Chemnitz Narup with 2259 votes. On December 1, 2017, she became social director of Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq, which is why she took leave of absence from the local council. As a result , she did not run again in the 2018 parliamentary election .