Søren Bo Søndergaard (born 16 August 1955) is a Danish teacher, metalworker and politician, who is a member of the

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for the Red-Green Alliance. He was elected into parliament at the 2015 Danish general election, and previously served from 1994 to 2005. He was a

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for the

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and associated member of GUE/NGL from 2007 to 2014.

Biography

Søren Søndergaard was born into the family of engineer Ernst Søndergaard and office assistant Birthe Søndergaard.

Political career

Søndergaard was first elected into the Folketing at the 1994 election. During his first term in the Folketing, he became a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the

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and a rapporteur on

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and political prisoners in

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. He was reelected in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

and

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

. From 2006 to 2007 he was a municipal council member of Gladsaxe Municipality. From 2007 to 2014 he was a member of the European Parliament. After the

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he failed to get reelected. In 2015 he ran for national parliament again and was elected through a constituency mandate in the Copenhagen Suburbs Constituency. He was reelected in

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References

External links

Official homepageEU Parliament profile

Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget)
1955 births Living people Frederikssund Municipality Danish municipal councillors People's Movement against the EU MEPs Red–Green Alliance (Denmark) politicians MEPs for Denmark 2009–2014 MEPs for Denmark 2004–2009 Members of the Folketing 1994–1998 Members of the Folketing 1998–2001 Members of the Folketing 2001–2005 Members of the Folketing 2015–2019 Members of the Folketing 2019–2022 Members of the Folketing 2022–2026 {{Denmark-MEP-stub