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118-583: A Venstre prime minister preceding her, which is likely why she received liberal-conservative support. On 9 August and 12 December 2013, amid tensions between coalition partners, Thorning-Schmidt made cabinet reshuffles . On 30 January 2014, the Socialist People's Party announced their departure from Thorning-Schmidt's government due to a conflict over the proposed sale of DONG Energy shares to Goldman Sachs . Before departure, they also announced they will support Thorning-Schmidt although not being
177-525: A caretaker government until 3 October, when Helle Thorning-Schmidt was appointed prime minister by the Queen following negotiations with the other opposition parties. Helle Thorning-Schmidt officially began her first term as prime minister on 3 October 2011, after having presented her cabinet to the Queen and having received her official appointment. Thorning-Schmidt pursued a centrist compromise agenda, building several reforms with support from both sides of
236-474: A broad-based progressive movement, but this did not materialize. A fourth party, the Communist Workers Party (KAP), succeeded in joining the alliance in 1991, but its involvement was vetoed a year later by DKP. Prior to the 2007 Danish general election , the party enlisted Asmaa Abdol-Hamid , a Danish Muslim candidate who identified herself as a feminist, democrat, and socialist. She
295-641: A degree in political science from the University of Copenhagen and a master's degree from the College of Europe . Since 2020, Thorning-Schmidt has served as a Co-Chair of the Facebook Oversight Board . Helle Thorning-Schmidt was born in Rødovre to Holger Thorning-Schmidt, a lecturer in mathematics and national economics at the University of Copenhagen , and his wife Grete. Her father
354-490: A democratic and socialist grassroots party, which represents green politics , among the Danish peace , civil and political rights , and labour movements . The party's ideological position is set out in a manifesto from 2014. It proposes that a socialistic society of the future "neither can nor should be described in detail, but rather be developed and shaped by the people living in it". It describes socialism as "an answer to
413-406: A democratic work life as well. The work place should be characterized by democracy, and the employees must have a constitutional right to decisive influence on the organization of work in the workplace. The Red–Green Alliance recognizes that methods achieving this may differ depending on the course of class struggle, but will eventually require a revolution—one that must be supported by a majority of
472-750: A director for the World Economic Forum . In 2014, he worked for London -based Xyntéo as managing director for the "Global Leadership and Technology Exchange", but was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberavon at the 2015 United Kingdom general election . The family have been living in Kilburn, London since Thorning-Schmidt became CEO of Save the Children, whilst also spending time at Kinnock's constituency in Port Talbot . Thorning-Schmidt has also campaigned for her husband and for
531-433: A larger public sector, among other things, to improve quality of life for public sector employees. The party believes people should be free to choose when they want to get an education and is opposed to tuition fees , which they believe harm opportunities for everyone to acquire an education. The party does not see unemployment as being equal to laziness and seeks to abolish the Danish equivalent of workfare . The party
590-500: A majority decided to directly contest the 2019 European Parliament election . The 2024-2029 MEP is Per Clausen . Helle Thorning-Schmidt Helle Thorning-Schmidt ( Danish pronunciation: [ˈhelə ˈtsʰoɐ̯ne̝ŋ ˈsme̝t] ; born 14 December 1966) is a Danish retired politician who served as the 26th Prime Minister of Denmark from 2011 to 2015, and Leader of the Social Democrats from 2005 to 2015. She
649-812: A moderate candidate and was elected by the party members on 12 April 2005, ahead of the other candidate, Frank Jensen . She led the Social Democrats in the 2007 election, in which her party suffered modest losses and was forced into a third term in opposition. The party was also unable to regain its position as the largest party in the Folketing . She was against holding a referendum on the European Reform Treaty . During her 2007 campaign she promised to relax restrictions on asylum seekers and immigrants. She also opposed tax cuts announced by Anders Fogh Rasmussen , instead stating she would like to see more funding for welfare. The party also campaigned on
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#1732766272114708-541: A part of her government. Thorning-Schmidt led her party into the 2015 general election in which her party increased its share of votes and seats. However, the Social Liberals lost nine seats, leaving the left bloc without enough support to remain in office. Within an hour of the results being declared, she announced her resignation as both prime minister and leader of the Social Democrats. Thorning
767-406: A platform of combating increased inequalities in society, and fighting global warming by supplying 45% of Denmark's energy from renewable sources by 2025. Although her party again lost two seats in the 2007 election reducing the total to 45 seats, her leadership was not questioned by her party. In June 2008, according to a Gallup poll , the opposition centre-left was at 49.8% compared to 49.6% for
826-471: A platform of improving public transport and making greater public investment. As part of the left-leaning "Red bloc" coalition with the Social Democrats , the Red–Green Alliance accepted the government budget twice and was in opposition twice in the period from 2011 to 2015. But at no point did they report direct opposition to the government. In the 2015 general election , the party received 7.8% of
885-403: A reason for withdrawing their support from the party. An anti-religious network was created within the party with the stated goal of turning the party into a solely atheist party with a materialist – Marxist basis. During the campaign, there was some speculation as to whether her candidacy would attract or repel voters. The results of the election were 2.2% for the party, down from 3.4% in
944-411: A seat, the opposition parties combined obtained more seats than the government coalition. Her four-party bloc gained a majority of 89 seats in the 179-seat parliament against 86 for the sitting prime minister and his center-right parliamentary supporters. Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen formally tendered his resignation to Queen Margrethe on 16 September 2011. Rasmussen's cabinet remained in office as
1003-471: A tax reform with support from the liberal-conservative opposition. The tax reform raised the top tax threshold, effectively lowering tax rates for high income earners. The aim of the tax reform was to increase labour output to fend off a projected shortage within the next decades. The stated goal was to entice Danes to work more in order to compensate for the decreasing workforce, by lowering tax on wages and gradually lowering welfare payments to those outside of
1062-532: Is decisively anti-capitalist and has particularly distinguished itself as an opponent of transfer pricing , whereby multinational companies minimise the amount they pay in tax by attributing their profits to countries with lower tax rates. In response to the Great Recession of 2007–2009, the Red–Green Alliance urged stricter control of loans, the introduction of a Tobin tax , and the nationalisation of banks and mortgage companies. It also believes that
1121-477: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Red-Green Alliance (Denmark) The Red–Green Alliance or Unity List ( Danish : Enhedslisten – De Rød-Grønne , lit. ' The Unity List – The Red–Greens ' , EL ) is an eco-socialist political party in Denmark . It was founded in 1989 with the merger of three Marxist parties and it
1180-517: Is endorsed by some imams , opposed by others (including those in Hizb ut-Tahrir , a fundamentalist organization). She wears a hijab and does not shake hands with men. These facts, and some of her statements regarding politics and religion, made her the target of some criticism across the political spectrum, particularly from the Danish People's Party . Some left-wing figures cited her candidacy as
1239-604: Is the first woman to have held each post. Following defeat in 2015 , she announced that she would step down as both Danish Prime Minister and Social Democratic party leader. Ending her political career in April 2016, she was the chief executive of the NGO Save the Children until June 2019. Thorning-Schmidt served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Denmark from 1999 to 2004 before being elected to
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#17327662721141298-404: Is the most left-wing party in the Folketing , where it advocates for the expansion of the welfare state and social justice as well as the socialist transformation of Denmark and the entire globe. During the 2021 Copenhagen City Council election the party placed first, with 24.6% of the votes. The party is also active in various trade unions within Denmark. The party describes itself as
1357-423: The 2005 Danish general election . Although not elected, Abdol-Hamid maintained that she had attracted voters to the party. The four seats won by the party went to Frank Aaen , Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen , Line Barfod , and Per Clausen. In the 2011 Danish general election , the party received 6.7% of the vote and tripled its representation from 4 seats to 12 seats. The party contested the 2013 local elections on
1416-419: The 2022 Danish general election , it became the largest party in 4 nomination districts of the municipality, namely Inner City , Nørrebro , Bispebjerg and Vesterbro . The party is much more weakly positioned in rural parts of Denmark, having received only 2.9% of the vote outside the municipalities of the three largest cities . Prior to 2016, the Red–Green Alliance never directly contested elections to
1475-735: The American Government proposed Thorning-Schmidt as special envoy to focus on mediating peace in Libya; according to media reports, however, she withdrew herself shortly after. In May 2020, Thorning-Schmidt joined the Facebook Oversight Group , established as an independent entity within Facebook, Inc. She was appointed as a full board member (one of twenty) who as a board have initially adjudicated on deleted Facebook posts in 2021. Also in 2020, Thorning-Schmidt
1534-597: The British Labour Party . Although Thorning-Schmidt has been baptized into the Church of Denmark , she is not confirmed . She occasionally goes to church but does not believe in eternal life , salvation , heaven , or hell . In August 2010, the Danish tax authorities (SKAT) investigated reports that Thorning-Schmidt's husband, Stephen Kinnock, was guilty of tax evasion . Kinnock had declared that he
1593-669: The College of Europe in Bruges , Belgium , where she studied from 1992 to 1993 (she is an alumna of the Charles IV promotion ). At the time, Denmark had a quota administered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of one student at this prestigious institution, and Thorning-Schmidt was selected. In addition to her native Danish , she speaks English , and French . She became a social democrat during her studies in Belgium and joined
1652-534: The Danish Parliament in 2005. She was elected to replace Mogens Lykketoft as Leader of the Social Democrats after the 2005 parliamentary election , leading her party through the 2007 parliamentary election , which was won by the centre-right alliance, and the 2011 parliamentary election , after which she was appointed Prime Minister by Queen Margrethe II , and the 2015 election . Thorning-Schmidt holds
1711-744: The European Parliament , preferring to support the People's Movement against the EU , the Eurosceptic party sits in The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL group now. Some of the party's MPs considered running an independent list for the 2014 elections , but this idea was dismissed by a majority in the party's yearly meeting. In a historic decision in the party's yearly meeting in May 2016,
1770-690: The Party of European Socialists . During the five-year term, she was a member of the Employment and Social Committee and served as a substitute on the Constitutional Committee . She co-founded the Campaign for Parliament Reform (CPR). In the 2005 Danish parliamentary election Thorning-Schmidt was elected to the Folketing . After the defeat in the 2005 election , in which the Social Democrats lost five seats and failed to regain
1829-606: The Social Democratic Party in 1993. From 1994 to 1997, Thorning-Schmidt led the secretariat of the Danish delegation of Social Democrats in the European Parliament . After her time in Brussels she worked as an international consultant with the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions until being elected MEP in 1999 . Thorning-Schmidt was elected to the European Parliament as a member of
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1888-538: The Social Democrats the largest party by far in the Folketing . Both Margrethe Vestager ( Social Liberal Party ) and Villy Søvndal ( Socialist People's Party ) pledged their support to Thorning-Schmidt after a potential election victory. After the 2007 election Helle Thorning-Schmidt started working towards forming a centre-left government coalition consisting of the Socialist People's Party and
1947-476: The Social Liberal Party with parliamentary support from the small Red-Green Alliance . As the leader of the largest opposition party in Denmark, she was described by the media as the leader of the Danish opposition. In the 2011 parliamentary election , she was re-elected to parliament. Although the ruling Liberal Party became the largest party and gained a seat and the Social Democrats lost
2006-601: The Tax Ministry deputy chief Peter Loft had attended several meetings attending to the Thorning-Schmidt case and had tried to insert comments into the final resolution text. This would be unlawful under Danish law as the Tax Ministry may not interfere with the decisions taken in individual tax cases. This set off a flurry of speculation in the press, as to whether there had been any political pressure from
2065-430: The public sector must be expanded, the wages of the lowest-paid workers raised, and that the insurance-based unemployment benefit period should be extended to a minimum of four years. At the same time, it believes that students should be given a greater grant to be used in state education. At minimum, all benefits should be raised to 13,500 kroner per month before taxes. The party advocates for foreign policy based on
2124-539: The Danish government had nominated Thorning-Schmidt as Denmark's official candidate to the position as new United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . After her retirement from Danish politics, Thorning-Schmidt served as the CEO of Save the Children from 2016 until 2019. Following the resignation of Ghassan Salamé as head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) in 2020,
2183-540: The Folketing. This caused friction with the supporting Red-Green Alliance, which was kept outside of influence. Thorning-Schmidt presided over the successful conclusion of NATO 's strike missions in Libya , to which Denmark was a contributor, less than three weeks after taking office. During the first year in office her government rolled back anti-immigration legislation enacted by the previous government, and passed
2242-408: The actual course of events. Further controversy erupted when two days later the tabloid daily, Ekstra Bladet , reported that they had also been offered the confidential information that was made public during the election campaign. The source of the leak was determined to be Peter Arnfeldt, spin doctor for then Minister for Taxation Troels Lund Poulsen . This led to intense media speculation that
2301-540: The centre-right. This would leave the centre-left with 88 seats, two short of a majority, discounting the Faroe Island and Greenland seats. Since late 2009 the opposition enjoyed large majorities in the polls, and according to polls carried out in January 2011 the opposition led the governing coalition under Lars Løkke Rasmussen by 5–7 points and the Social Democrats led Venstre by 7–10 points which would make
2360-484: The couple and the charges of tax evasion were dropped. A week before 15 September 2011 elections to the Danish Parliament, the 2010 decision from SKAT (the taxation department) surfaced in the Danish tabloid B.T. The case had been leaked to the newspaper several months previously. It turned out that from 2000 to 2008 Thorning-Schmidt had made use of tax deductions applicable to her husband, even though he
2419-711: The daughter-in-law of Neil Kinnock , former Leader of the Opposition and leader of the British Labour Party and European Commissioner, and Glenys Kinnock , former British Minister for Europe. She met her husband while they were both attending the College of Europe . They have two children, daughter Johanna and son Milo. Thorning-Schmidt lived in Copenhagen with their children, while her husband partly resided in Davos , Switzerland , where he worked as
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2478-425: The decision led to significant backlash, and the party's support was pulled back after the military intervention began. The party was formed in 1989 as an electoral alliance of three left-wing parties: Left Socialists (VS), Communist Party of Denmark (DKP), and Socialist Workers Party (SAP). Originally the plan was to unite these parties alongside The Greens (De Grønne), Common Course , and Humanist to form
2537-505: The duration of the two-year investigation period. In December 2013, Thorning-Schmidt, British prime minister David Cameron and US president Barack Obama faced criticism on social media that they had behaved inappropriately after posing for a " selfie " taken with Thorning-Schmidt's mobile phone during the memorial service for the former South African President Nelson Mandela . Defending her actions, Thorning-Schmidt said, "There were lots of pictures taken that day, and I just thought it
2596-452: The former government, and specifically Troels Lund Poulsen, were engaged in leaking confidential tax information and trying to pressure the revenue service into changing its decision in the case, in an active attempt to discredit the opposition leader in the then imminent election. This would constitute a hitherto unseen level of abuse of power in Danish political life. The commission of inquiry that had already been announced two days previously,
2655-515: The fundamental belief that peace is preferable to war, and has been opposed to Denmark's participation in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the beginning. That principle was challenged in 2011, when the party's parliamentary group voted in favour of Denmark's participation in the United Nations -sanctioned military action in Libya on the basis that it was a humanitarian action. However,
2714-442: The labour market to increase the economic benefit of working relative to receiving welfare. Despite effectively lowering tax rates on high income earners, tax revenue continued to increase from 831,172 million Krone in 2011, to 901,001 million Krone in 2013, and eventually reached 954,473 million Krone in 2015 by the end of her time in office. These effective reductions were in line with the 2009 tax reforms of Anders Fogh Rasmussen ,
2773-417: The majority it had lost in the 2001 election , former Minister of Finance and party leader Mogens Lykketoft resigned his post, taking responsibility for the poor election results. In his speech of resignation on election night, 8 February 2005, he called for a leadership election in order to determine who should lead the party into the next election. Thorning-Schmidt campaigned for the party leadership as
2832-528: The party agreed at its national conference in 2010 that if Helle Thorning-Schmidt became Prime Minister after the 2011 election, the party would vote for a "red" budget bill that did not contain obvious flaws. The party places great emphasis on the fight against social inequality and poverty, and is in favour of strengthening and expanding the welfare state . The party believes there is place in society for all forms of diversity, including gender, sexuality, disability and ethnic background. It also advocates for
2891-469: The population manifested through democratic and free elections. The party often adopts particular views in relation to the other parties in the Folketing and opt out of many of the settlements reached, seen as an expression of class collaboration. Until the conditions for the party's long-term goal are presented, the party will use its seats in parliament to vote for any improvement and against any deterioration of working-class people's lives. In line with this,
2950-630: The problems caused by capitalism such as non-sufficient democracy, crises, destruction of nature, inequality, racism and war". Holding anti-capitalist and soft Eurosceptic views, it states this about the economic system: A new and actually democratic system of society requires fundamental changes in the ownership of the means of production, such as companies, land and natural resources. Collective forms of ownership will be dominating. We propose that public authorities, co-workers, local communities and other collectives of persons should own and run institutions and companies. ... A democratic economy means
3009-463: The respect for human rights, which it believes has never been appropriately prioritised in the past. It also proposes greater support for developing countries through a doubling of foreign aid , and campaigns for Denmark's withdrawal from NATO . In March 2019, the party announced it would no longer campaign for a referendum to leave the EU, pointing to Brexit illustrating the need for clarity before withdrawal can be considered. The party operates on
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#17327662721143068-421: The then government to pursue a stricter course in the tax case. The Tax Minister in the new government, Thor Möger Pedersen, subsequently asked Peter Loft and the director of the revenue service's Copenhagen branch, Erling Andersen, to give a report on the happenings. On 2 December, Pedersen disclosed that he had found such big discrepancies in the two reports that he would set up a commission of inquiry to determine
3127-558: The vote and increased its representation from 12 to 14 seats. The party is the only one in the Folketing which does not have an official party leader, instead having collective leadership. However, since 2009 it has had a political spokesperson, who has served as the party's de facto representative, and serves as its leader in party leader debates. Red–Green Alliance tends to have a higher vote share in large urban areas, and especially in Copenhagen Municipality . In
3186-487: Was politically conservative and she grew up in the Copenhagen suburb of Ishøj . She attended Ishøj Gymnasium from which she graduated in 1985. Her parents divorced when she was 10 years old. Thorning-Schmidt studied political science at University of Copenhagen , earning a cand.scient.pol. degree in 1994. She also holds a master's degree in European studies specialising in policy and public administration from
3245-834: Was appointed by the World Health Organization 's Regional Office for Europe to serve as a member of the Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development, chaired by Mario Monti . From 2021 to 2022, she was a member of the Trilateral Commission ’s Task Force on Global Capitalism in Transition, chaired by Carl Bildt , Kelly Grier and Takeshi Niinami . In addition, Thorning-Schmidt has held several other paid and unpaid positions, including: Thorning-Schmidt married Welsh politician Stephen Kinnock in 1996, becoming
3304-411: Was broadly supported by the Danish Parliament to also look into whether the former government was involved in, or knew of, the leak. On the same day, Troels Lund Poulsen announced he would be taking an indefinite leave of absence from the Danish Parliament. Peter Arnfeldt has been reported to the police by the Ministry for Taxation. In March 2012, Peter Loft was suspended from his post as deputy chief, for
3363-412: Was not a resident of Denmark and thus not subject to Danish taxes, while at the same time Thorning-Schmidt had declared, in an application for dispensation for Kinnock to own property in Denmark, that he resided in Denmark "every weekend of the year from Friday through to Monday". Thorning-Schmidt attributed the discrepancy to a "big and sloppy error". On 16 September 2010, Danish tax authorities acquitted
3422-419: Was not subject to Danish taxes and had no income in Denmark. The mistake was corrected by SKAT for the three years from 2006 to 2008, and Thorning-Schmidt paid the amount she had saved due to the error. She was however not required to pay the amounts saved for the six years from 2000 to 2005, because of the statutory time limit for liability in such cases. In November 2011, the daily Politiken disclosed that
3481-573: Was the leader of the Social Democrats through seven electoral campaigns. Having lost the Danish general election of 2015, Thorning-Schmidt stepped down as prime minister and as leader of the Social Democratic Party. It was announced that she would become her party's member of the Presidium of the Folketing, and she served as the Presidium's 1st Vice-President. On 4 September 2015, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen announced that
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