Pia Christmas-Møller

Pia Christmas-Møller (born January 21, 1961 in Kjellerup , Silkeborg ) is a Danish politician of the Conservative People's Party . She was a party leader from 1998 to 1999. At the turn of the year 2007/08 she left the party and parliamentary group and remained a non-attached member of the Folketing until 2011 .

job

Pia Christmas-Møller graduated from high school in Kolding in 1979 . She then worked for a year as a substitute teacher in the North Vangskole in Haslev . 1981-1983 she worked for the conservative parliamentary group as a political assistant. She then worked for the self-employed unemployed insurance company ( Danske Næringsdrivendes Arbejdsløshedskasse ) for four years .

politics

Pia Christmas-Møller joined the conservative youth organization Conservative Ungdom in 1977 . Two years later she became its chairman and thus also a member of the board of the Conservative People's Party. From 1987 to 2011 she was a member of parliament.

On March 20, 1998 she was elected party leader and political spokeswoman in the parliamentary group . However, after ongoing wing disputes, she had to hand over this position to Bendt Bendtsen on August 2, 1999 . In 2001 she was returned to the post of political spokesperson, and in 2005 she also became spokeswoman for the parliamentary group for foreign policy.

On December 5, 2007, she announced her resignation from the conservative Folketing faction. She criticized hierarchical management structures and a poor culture of debate. She was also deprived of the important post of political spokeswoman after the 2007 parliamentary elections . With her resignation, the parliamentary majority of the Anders Fogh Rasmussen II government wavered. When Christmas-Møller announced that he would be voting against a government draft on asylum policy, party chairman Bendt Bendtsen threatened her with expulsion from the party. She anticipated this on January 22, 2008 by leaving. Shortly before the 2011 Folketing Election, she returned to the party and was to be put up as a candidate in the Københavns Storkreds constituency. However, her quick freestyle turned out to be incompatible with the party statutes, so that she could not fight again for a seat in parliament.

Pia Christmas-Møller is a great niece of John Christmas Møller , conservative party leader between 1928 and 1947.

Web links

• CV at Folketinget.dk

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pia Christmas-Møller melder sig ud af De Konservative , DR Online , January 22, 2008, accessed July 12, 2012
2. ↑ Jeppe T. Findalen: A political workhorse (Danish) ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Politiken.dk, December 5, 2007, accessed July 12, 2012