Annette Vilhelmsen

{{Infobox officeholder

| image = Statsminister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Anette Vilhelmsen og Holger K. Nielsen.jpg

| caption = Anette Wilhelmsen, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Holger K. Nielsen (2012)

| name = Annette Vilhelmsen

| office = Minister for Social Affairs and Integration

| primeminister = Helle Thorning-Schmidt

| term_start = 9 August 2013

| term_end = 3 February 2014

| predecessor = Karen Hækkerup

| successor = Manu Sareen

| office2 = Minister of Economic and Business Affairs

| term_start2 = 16 October 2012

| term_end2 = 9 August 2013

| primeminister2 = Helle Thorning-Schmidt

| predecessor2 = Ole Sohn

| successor2 = Henrik Sass Larsen

| office3 = Leader of the Socialist People's Party

| term_start3 = 13 October 2012

| term_end3 = 13 February 2014

| predecessor3 = Villy Søvndal

| successor3 = Pia Olsen Dyhr

| office4 = Member of Parliament

| term_start4 = 15 September 2011

| term_end4 = 18 June 2015

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|10|24|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Svendborg, Denmark

| religion =

| party = Socialist People's Party

| spouse = John Vilhelmsen

|}}

Annette Lilja Vilhelmsen (born 24 October 1959) is a Danish politician who served as chairperson of the Socialist People's Party from 2012 to 2014. She served as Minister for Social Affairs and Integration from August 2013 to February 2014 and Minister for Economic and Business Affairs from 2012 to 2013 in the first cabinet of Helle Thorning-Schmidt. She was a member of Folketing from 2011 to 2015.

Political career

Born in Svendborg, she was educated as a teacher and had a long career in teaching combined with local politics before entering the national political scene when she was elected to Parliament in the 2011 elections. She became her party's spokeswoman for Business related issues.

In September 2012 she announced her candidacy for the post as head of the Socialist People's Party running against Astrid Krag after the previous leader Villy Søvndal stepped down. Vilhelmsen is said to represent the party's left wing. While most of the party leadership voiced their support for Krag and warned that Vilhelmsen's leftist line might endanger the stability of the government coalition, Vilhelmsen achieved considerable support in the general constituency of the party, and won the election with 66% of the vote.{{Cite web |url=http://cphpost.dk/news/national/other-news-sept-21-27 |title=In other news ... (Sept 21 - 27)The Copenhagen Post |access-date=2012-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927141933/http://cphpost.dk//news/national/other-news-sept-21-27 |archive-date=2012-09-27 |url-status=dead }}{{ft.dk link}}[http://www.dr.dk/P4/Kbh/Nyheder/Koebenhavn/2012/09/28/131942.htm Anette Vilhelmsen får opbakning fra København - dr.dk/P4/København/Nyheder/København][https://archive.today/20130213014148/http://www.tv2fyn.dk/article/371748:Anette-Vilhelmsen-ny-fynsk-SF-spidskandidat?rssc Vilhelmsen ny fynsk SF-spidskandidat][http://denkorteavis.dk/2012/anette-vilhelmsen-skaerpede-kritikken-pa-sf-duelmode-pa-fyn/ Anette Vilhelmsen skærpede kritikken på SF-duelmøde på Fyn ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005062313/http://denkorteavis.dk/2012/anette-vilhelmsen-skaerpede-kritikken-pa-sf-duelmode-pa-fyn/ |date=2012-10-05 }}

On 16 October 2012 she was named new Minister of Economic and Business Affairs succeeding Ole Sohn.[http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Politik/2012/10/16/134320.htm dr.dk Ole Sohn gav Vilhelmsen røde og gule kort] She retracted from both her post as Minister and chairman of the party on 30 January 2014 following lack of support from the party grassroots in the high-profile case of selling part of Danish energy company DONG to American Goldman-Sachs.