Annette Vilhelmsen
Annette Vilhelmsen | |
|---|---|
Parliament | |
| In office 15 September 2011 – 18 June 2015 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 October 1959 Socialist People's Party |
| Spouse | John Vilhelmsen |
Annette Lilja Vilhelmsen (born 24 October 1959) is a
Minister for Economic and Business Affairs from 2012 to 2013 in the first cabinet of Helle Thorning-Schmidt. She was a member of Folketing
from 2011 to 2015.
Political career
Born in
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.[1][2][3][4][5]
On 16 October 2012 she was named new
DONG
to American Goldman-Sachs.
References
- ^ "In other news ... (Sept 21 - 27)The Copenhagen Post". Archived from the original on 2012-09-27. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
- ^ Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget)
- ^ Anette Vilhelmsen får opbakning fra København - dr.dk/P4/København/Nyheder/København
- ^ Vilhelmsen ny fynsk SF-spidskandidat
- ^ Anette Vilhelmsen skærpede kritikken på SF-duelmøde på Fyn Archived 2012-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ dr.dk Ole Sohn gav Vilhelmsen røde og gule kort