Michael Aastrup Jensen
Political career
Aastrup Jensen been politically active since he as a 14-year-old joined the Young Liberals and the Liberal Party in Randers. In subsequent years he held various positions within these organizations.
In 1998-2006 he was a Member of Randers Town Council and was appointed mayor in 2002.[2] Thus, he became the youngest mayor ever in Denmark.[3]
Member of Parliament, 2005–present
Aastrup Jensen has been a Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party since 2005.[4]
Since the 2015 Danish elections, Aastrup Jensen has been his parliamentary group's spokesman on foreign affairs.[2] He is also a member of numerous committees, including the Danish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.[2] In this capacity, he has been serving as Vice-President of the Assembly (since 2015) and as member of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee).[5] Alongside Kastriot Islami of Albania (2010-2011) and Boris Tsilevitch of Latvia (2012-2015), he also served as the Assembly's co-rapporteur on the monitoring of Georgia between 2010 and 2015.[6]
References
- "Den Store Danske Encyklopædi - Michael Aastrup Jensen". Gyldendal 2009-2013. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget). Retrieved on 15 May 2013.
- "Randers-borgmester vil i Folketinget". Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten. 25 October 2004. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- "Folketinget - Michael Aastrup Jensen". Folketinget. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- PACE elects a new Vice-President in respect of Denmark Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, press release of September 28, 2015.
- PACE co-rapporteurs condemn the treaty Russia-the self-proclaimed ‘Republic of South Ossetia’ Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, press release of March 24, 2015.