Lotte Bundsgaard (born 20 January 1973) is a Danish schoolteacher, journalist and politician. She was born in

Nivå Nivå is a town with a population of 7,997 (1 January 2022)Folketinget The Folketing ( da, Folketinget, ; ), also known as the Parliament of Denmark or the Danish Parliament in English, is the unicameral national legislature (parliament) of the Kingdom of Denmark—Denmark proper together with the Faroe Islands an ...

for the

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from 1998 to 2007. She was Minister for Towns and Homes and Minister for Equal Rights in

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's fourth cabinet from December 2000 to November 2001.. Accessed on 4 July 2019. Bundsgaard was educated schoolteacher at

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Seminarium and worked as schoolteacher before she was elected to Folketinget. After her political career, she graduated as from the

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, and has worked as journalist.

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