Pia Christmas-Møller

Pia Christmas -Møller ( born January 21, 1961 in Kjellerup, Silkeborg ) is a Danish politician of the Conservative People's Party. She was party leader from 1998 to 1999. Around the turn of 2007 /08, she left the party and faction, and remained until 2011 non-attached MEPs in the Folketing.

Profession

Pia Christmas -Møller 1979 graduated from high school in Kolding. She then worked for a year as a substitute teacher in the Nordvangskole in Haslev. 1981-1983 she worked as a political assistant at the conservative parliamentary group. After that, she was employed for four years with the unemployment insurance for self-employed ( Danske Næringsdrivendes Arbejdsløshedskasse ).

Policy

Pia Christmas -Møller occurred in 1977 in the conservative youth organization Conservative one Ungdom. Two years later she became its chairman and thus also a board member of the Conservative People's Party. From 1987 to 2011 she was member of parliament.

On 20 March 1998, she was named in the fraction to the party leader and political spokesperson. After enduring wing disputes they had already passed on 2 August 1999 at Bendt Bendtsen this position, however. In 2001 she received the items back as Political Officer, 2005, she was also spokesperson of the Foreign Policy.

On 5 December 2007, she announced her resignation from the conservative faction Folketing. They criticized hierarchical management structures and a lack of debate culture. She was after the 2007 General Election also the important posts of political spokeswoman been withdrawn. With their exit, the parliamentary majority of the governing Anders Fogh Rasmussen II came to falter. As Christmas -Møller announced to vote against a government bill on asylum policy, threatened her, the party chairman Bendt Bendtsen with expulsion from the party. Which it came on 22 January 2008 by an exit before. Shortly before the general election in 2011, she returned to the party and should be placed as a candidate in the electoral district Københavns Stork Reds. However, your swift freestyle turned out to be incompatible with the party statutes so that they could not fight again for a seat in Parliament.

Pia Christmas -Møller is a great-niece of John Christmas Møller, conservative party leader 1928-1947.