Party Socialist People's Party Role Danish Politician | Name Annette Vilhelmsen Preceded by Karen Haekkerup | |
Education Danmarks Paedagogiske Universitet (2001) Children Lasse Vilhelmsen, Tore Vilhelmsen | ||
Annette vilhelmsen r d blok vinder valget
Annette Lilja Vilhelmsen (born 24 October 1959) is a Danish politician who was Minister for Social Affairs and Integration for a short period from medio 2013 to primo 2014 and who was Minister for Economic and Business Affairs from 2012 to 2013, both times in the Cabinet of Helle Thorning-Schmidt. She was a member of Parliament of Denmark from 2011 to 2015 and was the chairman of the Socialist People's Party (SF) from 2012 to 2014.
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Political career
Born in Svendborg, she was educated as a teacher and had a long career in teaching combined with local politics before entering the national political scene when she was elected to Parliament in the 2011 elections. She became her party's spokeswoman for Business related issues.
In September 2012 she announced her candidacy for the post as head of the Socialist People's Party running against Astrid Krag after the previous leader Villy Søvndal stepped down. Vilhelmsen is said to represent the party's left wing. While most of the party leadership voiced their support for Krag and warned that Vilhelmsen's leftist line might endanger the stability of the government coalition, Vilhelmsen achieved considerable support in the general constituency of the party, and won the election with 66% of the vote.
On 16 October 2012 she was named new Minister of Economic and Business Affairs succeeding Ole Sohn. She retracted from both her post as Minister and chairman of the party on 30 January 2014 following lack of support from the party grassroots in the high-profile case of selling part of Danish energy company DONG to American Goldman-Sachs.
