Anne Baastrup
Anne Baastrup | |
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| Member of the Folketing | |
| In office 13 November 2007 – 18 June 2015 | |
| In office 21 September 1994 – 20 November 2001 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 April 1952 Aalborg,Denmark |
| Political party | Socialist People's Party |
| Education | Aalborghus Gymnasium |
Anne Baastrup(born 1952) is a Danish politician and was a member of theFolketing.She has served multiple times: in the1994 Danish general electionand the1998 general election,serving from 1994 to 2001, and then in the2007 general electionand the2011 general election,serving from 2007 to 2015.
Background
[edit]Baastrup was born in 1952 inAalborg,[1] daughter of office manager Jørgen Baastrup and business owner Inger Baastrup. She graduated from Aalborghus Statsgymnasium in 1970 andCandidate of LawfromUniversity of Copenhagenin1976.She is married, has three children and six grandchildren and lives inCopenhagenandBogense.[1]
Baastrup has a career as a civil servant and in thetrade union movement.She was employed as aclerkin theLocal Government Associationfrom 1976 until 1980, when she moved to a position in theDanish Parliamentas committee secretary. In 1987, she moved to a position as an administrator in the Gender Equality Council. Since 1989, she has been union secretary atFTF.[1]
Political career
[edit]Baastrup joined theSF(Socialist People's Party) in1987. For a number of years she was active inCopenhagen'sschool politics.[1]She was a member of the SF-Københavns school committee 1988–93, chairman of the school board and member of the board ofBellahøj School1988–92, chairman of the Joint Council for Public Schools in Copenhagen 1990-92 and of Skole og Samfund's executive committee in Copenhagen 1990–92.
She became a member of SF's main board in 1992 and continued as a member until 2001.
In 1994, Baastrup was nominated as aparliamentary candidatein theKøge district.In theParliamentary election of 21 September 1994,she was elected on anadditional mandateinRoskilde Countywith 2,404 personal votes.[2]
In 1999 she changedconstituencytoOdense Østkredsen.[1]
In the Danish Parliament, Baastrup was chairman of theLegal Affairs Committeefrom 2001 to 2005 and again from 2011 to 2012. Between 1998 and 2001, and again between 2005 and 2010, she was its vice-chairman.[1] As chairman of theLegal Affairs Committee,she was responsible for the appointment of formerAttorney GeneralJørgen Steen Sørensen,as the newOmbudsman,replacingHans Gammeltoft Hansen.
Baastrup is the party'ssocial spokesperson.She has previously been health spokesperson, education spokesperson, working environment spokesperson, disability and psychiatry spokesperson, citizenship spokesperson and traffic spokesperson.[1]
She has participated in the preparation of various programmes and discussion papers, such as the discussion paper "More Society - Less State", SF's various election programmes and all programmes concerning integration andEF/EUsince 1993.
In May 2008, in a ballot against mayorBo Asmus Kjeldgaard,she lost the battle to become the party'slead candidateinCopenhagen Municipality.She then announced that she would not stand for re-election to the Danish Parliament. She later announced that she intended to seek re-election anyway.[3]
Baastrup lists "growth, jobs and education", "public transport"and" people withdisabilities"as herkey issue.She wants "massive investment in education" and the expansion of public transport.[4]
References
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- ^"Folketingsvalget den 21. september 1994"(PDF)(in Danish).Ministry of the Interior.22 January 1996. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 7 October 2013.Retrieved28 August2024.
- ^Ramhøj, Niels Erik."Anne Baastrup genopstiller til Folketinget".SF Odense(in Danish). Archived fromthe originalon 9 May 2021.Retrieved2024-08-30.
- ^"Mine mærkesager"(in Danish).Socialist People's Party.Archived fromthe originalon 7 October 2013.Retrieved30 August2024.