Pernille Frahm (born 1 April 1954) is a Danish politician and teacher who served two terms as a member of the

Folketing 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 ...

for the Socialist People's Party from 1990 to 1994 and again from 2007 to 2011 as well as serving as a

Member of the European Parliament A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...

(MEP) for the Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left group between 1999 and 2004. She also was twice a member of the

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between 1998 and 1999 and also from 2007 to 2011.

Biography

On 1 April 1954, Frahm was born in

Hillerød Hillerød () is a Denmark, Danish town with a population of 35,357 (1 January 2022) Frahm was educated at Lyngby State School from 1968 to 1973. She passed the examination to qualify as a teacher at Frederiksberg Seminarium in 1978. Frahm began her teaching career at Hareskovens Lilleskole in

Ballerup Ballerup is a Danish town, seat of the Ballerup Municipality, in the Region Hovedstaden. There are approximately 25 schools in Ballerup Municipality. Ballerup has its own educational institution specialized in the study, training and research of ...

at and remained at the school until 1990. She also taught at Nordsjællands Friskole in Hillerød from 1988 to 1989. Frahm joined the main board of the Socialist People's Party (SF) in 1988 and served on Frie Grundskolers Lærerforening's district board until 1990. Also in 1990, she was elected a member of the

on behalf of the SF in the Copenhagen constituency. Frahm sat in the Folketing from 12 December 1990 until 20 September 1994. She returned to teaching following her first Parliamentary stint, educating at the School of Music and Theatre for socially disadvantaged young people and children in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

between 1995 and 1997, and then at Gasværksvejens Skole in

Vesterbro, Copenhagen Vesterbro is one of the 15 administrative, statistical, and city tax districts (''bydele'') comprising the municipality of Copenhagen, Denmark. It covers an area of 3.76 km², and has a population of 51,466 and a population density of 13, ...

from 1997 to 1998. In between this, Frahm stood as a candidate for each of the Rødovre and Vesterbro constituencies in 1992 and 1996. She returned to the Folketing as an elected member of the constituency of Vestre Storkreds on 11 March 1998 and remained in Parliament until 19 July 1999. Frahm was appointed vice-chair of the GUE Group in 1999, and served on the

from 20 April 1998 and 20 September 1999. That same day, Frahm was elected a

(MEP) standing as a Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left (EUL–NGL) candidate for the Denmark constituency in the

1999 European Parliament election in Denmark European Parliament elections were held in Denmark on 10 June 1999 to elect the 16 Danish members of the European Parliament. Results Seats were allocated first by the D'Hondt method to electoral coalitions ( Venstre + Conservative People's Part ...

. During her time as an MEP, she was vice-chair of the Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee from 6 February 2002 to 30 April 2004, and the EUL–NGL vice-chair. Frahm served as a member of each of the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy. She was a substitute for both the Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system and twice on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy. Frahm left the

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on 19 July 2004, after an unsuccessful campaign focused on the environment, gender equality and security policy. She matriculated to Danmarks Pædagogosike Universitet in Copenhagen from 2004 and 2006 and obtained a master's degree in special education. Frahm taught at Dronninggårdskolen in

Holte Holte is a suburban district in Rudersdal Municipality on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. The local town centre is centred on Holte station and is surrounded by extensive areas of single-family, detached homes as well as several l ...

between 2006 and 2007 and at Stengårds Skole in

Gladsaxe Municipality Gladsaxe Kommune is a municipality (Danish, ''Commune (subnational entity), kommune'') near Copenhagen in Region Hovedstaden on the island of Zealand (Denmark), Zealand (''Sjælland'') in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of , and ...

from 2007 onward. On 13 November 2007, she was elected to serve the East Jutland consistency as a Member of the Folketing at the

2007 Danish parliamentary election General elections were held in Denmark on 13 November 2007. The elections allowed prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to continue for a third term in a coalition government consisting of Venstre and the Conservative People's Party with parliam ...

. In Parliament, Frahm championed rapporteurships in Christianity, culture, special education, sports and veteran's affairs. She failed to gain re-election at the

2011 Danish parliamentary 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 ...

. Frahm has served as a member of the Frederiksberg Municipal Council since 2014. She had been doing a second term at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe between 21 January 2008 and 25 November 2011.

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