Alex Ahrendtsen (born 14 February 1967 in Kolding) is a

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politician, who is a member of the

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for the Danish People's Party. He was elected into parliament at the

2011 Danish general election General elections were held in Denmark on 15 September 2011 to elect the 179 members of the Folketing. Of those 179, 175 members were elected in Denmark, two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland. The incumbent centre-right coalition led by ...

Political career

Ahrendtsen was in the municipal council of Odense Municipality from 2006 to 2017. He was first elected into the

in the 2011 general election, where he received 2,462 personal votes. He was reelected in the 2015 election with 4,996 personal votes, and again in the 2019 election with 2,656 personal votes. In 2023, Ahrendtsen published a book about

rindalism In Denmark, rindalism (Danish language, Danish: ) refers to opposition to abstract art and especially public funding thereof. Named after , the term covered the mid-1960s movement in Denmark against the establishment of Danish Arts Foundation, St ...

titled ''Rindal: Kampen mod kultureliten og velfærdsstaten'' (Rindal: The struggle against the cultural elite and the welfare stat).

References

External links

Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget)
Living people 1967 births People from Kolding Danish People's Party politicians Danish municipal councillors Members of the Folketing 2011–2015 Members of the Folketing 2015–2019 Members of the Folketing 2019–2022 Members of the Folketing 2022–2026 {{Denmark-politician-stub