Pia Kjærsgaard

Pia Merete Kjærsgaard ( born February 23, 1947 in Copenhagen) is a Danish politician. She co-founded the right-wing populist Danish People's Party ( Danish People's Party, shortly DF). She distinguished herself in front of her fight against immigration and multiculturalism and initiated the parliamentary support of the minority governments of Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Lars Løkke Rasmussen 2001 to 2011. Between 1995 and 2012 she was party chairman.

Background

Kjærsgaard is the daughter of the merchant Poul Kjærsgaard and his wife Inge Munch Jensen. After completing elementary school in 1963, she attended until 1965, the business school in Copenhagen. 1963-1967 she worked in home senior care in Gentofte. 1978-1984 she was clerk in the insurance and the advertising industry.

Policy

Kjærsgaard began her political career as a candidate of the Danish Progress Party in the constituency Ryvang (1979-1981), later in the constituencies Ballerup and Gladsaxe (1981-1983), Hvidovre (1983-1984) and finally in the constituency Middelfart ( 1984-1995 ). In 1984 she received her first seat in the Folketing, the Danish Parliament for the Progress Party. From 1987, she appeared as a top candidate.

1995 Kjærsgaard left the Progress Party after innerparteilichem dispute and founded with others the Danish People's Party. In 1997 she ran for the DF in Glostrup, later in Hellerup and Gentofte ( 1997-2005 ) and again won a seat in the Folketing.

In the measure in which subsided support for the Progress Party, put the DF to. In 2001 she became the third largest party in the Folketing with 12 % of votes. In 2005, she rose again to 13.2 %. Kjærsgaard received as a candidate 38 347 votes, which was surpassed only by the then Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The DF formed a mainly national and nativist platform on the line of other European right-wing parties. They argued for a tightening of criminal law and a social welfare policy as it has been traditionally represented by the Danish Social Democrats. Through cooperation with the minority government under Anders Fogh Rasmussen ( Liberal Venstre ) they could enforce some of their political demands.

On September 15, 2012 Kjærsgaard handed over the party chairmanship to Kristian Dahl Thulesen. Since then, she has held the newly created post of Political Affairs spokeswoman values ​​(Danish værdiordfører ) and moved into a Presidium of the Folketing.

Positions and objectives

Kjærsgaards most frequently mentioned goals are to restrict immigration to Denmark to expand the care of older people and to preserve the sovereignty of the country in particular towards the European Union. In the Danish euro referendum they were confirmed in 2000 successfully opposed the introduction of the Euro.

In 2002, she said: "The law on social security is passé because it was tailored to the Danish family tradition and work ethic, not Muslims, who see fit to let others take care of themselves, while the wife gives birth to many children. The child allowance is exploited so that an immigrant is achieved solely by its number of children a top incomes. The penalties for gang rape must be increased, since this problem only arose with the vandalism of the many antisocial second generation immigrants. "

In 2008, she spoke out for inclusion of Taiwan in the World Health Organization and the United Nations.

Controversies and incidents

On 24 March 1998 Kjærsgaard was attacked during a demonstration of autonomous Left in Copenhagen Nørrebro district.

In 2001, she called in a DF- publication Muslims as people who " lie, cheat and deceive " and was then displayed for " racist " remarks. The police refused a case against Kjærsgaard and explained that there were no indications that their statements against racism laws violated.

In 2002, she had three thousand Danish kroner punishment for threatening a woman pay with pepper spray, which is banned in Denmark. Kjærsgaard explained that she had felt intimidated and threatened by the woman's behavior, and announced her intention to stand up for a change to the weapons law.

In 2003, she succumbed at a libel suit before the Danish Supreme Court against the anti-EU activist Karen Sund, who had referred Kjærsgaards positions as " racist". The court ruled that Sund have assumed its just a negative opinion about immigrants, but no racism in biologistic or National Socialist sense.

2007 Kjærsgaard claimed to have been during a parliamentary meeting of members of the youth organization of the Socialistisk Folkeparti verbally attacked. She then requested an apology from Villy Søvndal, the chairman of the party. The video did not confirm the allegations of Kjærsgaard, but instead showed a group of people of the Youth League of the Red-Green Enhedslisten - rød de - grønne which they pelted with confetti and to sing songs.