Per Clausen
{{Short description|Danish politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Per Clausen
| image = Per Clausen, 2024 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Per Clausen in 2024
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|02|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = Kongsvinger, Norway
| alma_mater = Cand.phil.
| profession = Politician
| party = Red–Green Alliance
| term_start = 2005
| term_end = 2015
| death_date =
| death_place =
| constituency_MP = East Jutland
}}
Per Clausen (born 20 February 1955) is a Danish politician from the Red-Green Alliance. Since 2013, he has served on the Aalborg Municipal council in Aalborg Municipality, where, in 2022, he became a deputy mayor for climate and energy.
Between 2005 and 2015, he represented the Red-Green Alliance in the Folketing.
In March 2023, he provided himself as the lead candidate for the Red-Green Alliance to the 2024 European Parliament election, and it was later announced that he would become the lead candidate.https://www.tv2nord.dk/aalborg/per-clausen-vil-i-eu{{Cite web |date=28 May 2023 |title=Enhedslisten-veteran bliver spidskandidat til Europa-Parlamentet – TV 2 |url=https://nyheder.tv2.dk/politik/2023-05-28-enhedslisten-veteran-bliver-spidskandidat-til-europa-parlamentet |access-date=2023-05-28 |website=nyheder.tv2.dk |language=da-DK}}
Life
Per Clausen is the son of painter Frede Aage Clausen and laundry owner Grethe Clausen.{{ft.dk link}} He was born in Kongsvinger, Norway, but grew up in multiple places in Jutland, finally settling in Aalborg and taking the Danish exam in 1972 from Poul Paghsgades Skole.
Through time, he has had multiple occupations such as factory worker, car mechanic, laundry owner, teacher and trade unionist.{{Cite web |title=Per Clausens biografi på Red-Green Alliances hjemmeside |url=http://enhedslisten.dk/perclausen|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816001827/http://enhedslisten.dk/perclausen |archive-date=16 August 2012 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.ft.dk/medlemmer/mf/p/per-clausen | title=Per Clausen }}
Work in trade unions
Since his youth, Per Clausen has been politically active in the trade unions and on the Danish left.
He began in the 1970s as a member of the Danish General Workers' Union-factory youth, and has since taken on multiple position of trust in the trade unions. In 1994, he was elected as trade unionist for Dansk Magisterforening.https://www.ft.dk/medlemmer/mf/p/per-clausen
Member of parliament
In 2005, he was elected to the Folketing for the Red-Green Alliance, in the North Jutland County constituency. Here he represented the party until 2015, where he was barred from another parliament term due to the rotation princip of the Red-Green Alliance.{{Cite web |date=8 May 2009 |title=EL ændrer rotationsregler |url=https://politiken.dk/indland/politik/art4800402/EL-%C3%A6ndrer-rotationsregler |access-date=2023-08-16 |website=Politiken |language=da-DK}}{{Cite web |title=Per Clausen |url=https://www.ft.dk/medlemmer/mf/p/per-clausen |access-date=2023-08-16 |website=Folketinget |language=da}} In the period of his parliamentary career, he was among other things, the party's EU-spokesperon, environmental-spokesperson, health-spokesperson and group-leader for the parliamentary group.[http://politiken.dk/indland/politik/ECE2074595/per-clausen-stopper-som-gruppeformand-i-Red-Green Alliance/ Per Clausen stopper som gruppeformand i Red-Green Alliance], Politiken.dk, 12. september 2013 Between 2014 and 2015 he was a member of the parliaments bureau.
Per Clausen has been described as being a diligent MP and has on multiple occasions, earned the title as the most pertinacious question-raiser of the § 20-spørgsmål i n the Folketing. In 2008, LGBT Danmark named him politician of the year, citing his work to secure rights for gay, bisexual. and trans people.https://nyheder.tv2.dk/politik/2006-11-13-Red-Green Alliance-stiller-flest-ss20spoergsmaalhttps://jyllands-posten.dk/jpaarhus/ECE4470028/%C3%98stjysk-politiker-valgt-til-%C3%A5rets-homopolitiker/
Memebrship of Aalborg Municipal Council
Since 2013, Clausen has been a member of the Aalborg Municipal Council.{{Cite web |url=https://nordjyske.dk/nyheder/per-clausen-faar-kanonvalg-i-aalborg/eca45209-6675-46e8-84db-f49b95c1847d |title=Arkiveret kopi |access-date=25 September 2019 |archive-date=25 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925033034/https://nordjyske.dk/nyheder/per-clausen-faar-kanonvalg-i-aalborg/eca45209-6675-46e8-84db-f49b95c1847d |url-status=dead }} He was the lead candidate for the Red-Green Alliance in the municipal council election in 2013, and was at the time a part of winning the party's three seats in a city, where the party had never won representation before. During the 2021 election, he received 2,312 personal votes, which was the fifth highest.
He was also elected in 2017https://apps.aalborgkommune.dk/statistik/webaarbog/aarbog17/struktur/Valg/Byraadsvalg/Byrdsvalg2017.pdf and 2021.{{Cite web |url=https://www.aalborg.dk/nyheder/alle-nyheder/2021/2021/11/det-endelige-valgresultat-er-klar-i-aalborg-kommune-kommunalvalg-2021 |title=Arkiveret kopi |access-date= 1 March 2022 |archive-date= 1 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220301162401/https://www.aalborg.dk/nyheder/alle-nyheder/2021/2021/11/det-endelige-valgresultat-er-klar-i-aalborg-kommune-kommunalvalg-2021 |url-status=dead }} He has been the municipality's councilor for Climate and Energy since 2022.{{Citation | url=https://migogaalborg.dk/raadmaend-i-aalborg-kommune/ | title=Aftalen er på plads: Her er Aalborg Kommunes nye rådmænd | date=17 November 2021 | first=Emil Kjær |last=Jørgensen | access-date=8 May 2022 | website=migogaalborg.dk }}{{Citation | url=https://www.aalborg.dk/politik/aalborg-byraad/politikere/person?perslbnr=1572 | title=Per Clausen | access-date=8 May 2022 | publisher=Aalborg Kommune}} Allerede i slutningen af 2021 var Clausen fungerende rådmand, da rådmand Lasse Olsen var sygemeldt.{{Citation | url=https://www.bt.dk/politik/faa-maaneder-foer-valgkamp-raadmand-sygemeldt-med-stress | title=Få måneder før valgkamp: Rådmand sygemeldt med stress | date=2 September 2021 | access-date=8 May 2022 | first=Simon Brix |last=Frederiksen | work=B.T.}}
Clausen has been a member of the board of directors in the Kommunernes Landsforening since 8 March 2018.{{Citation | url=https://www.kl.dk/media/25491/bestyrelsen-fortegnelse-over-kls-bestyrelse-fra-1970.pdf | title=Fortegnelse over KL's bestyrelse fra 1970 | date=2 November 2020 | access-date=8 May 2022 | publisher=KL | archive-date=30 October 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211030163321/https://www.kl.dk/media/25491/bestyrelsen-fortegnelse-over-kls-bestyrelse-fra-1970.pdf | url-status=dead }}{{Citation | url=https://www.kl.dk/forsidenyheder/2022/marts-2/kl-s-nye-bestyrelse-er-nu-paa-plads/ | title=KL's nye bestyrelse er nu på plads | date=17 March 2022 | access-date=8 May 2022 | publisher=KL | archive-date=17 March 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220317163852/https://www.kl.dk/forsidenyheder/2022/marts-2/kl-s-nye-bestyrelse-er-nu-paa-plads/ | url-status=dead }}
=Parliamentary career =
Red-Green Alliances candidate in Aarhus East from 2007, in Aalborg East 2002–2007, in Frederiksborg County constituency 2000–2002, in North Jutland County constituency 1989–2000. Left Socialists candidate North Jutland County constituency 1977–1988.
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