Michael Aastrup Jensen

Michael Aastrup Jensen (born 16 March 1976 in Roskilde) is a Danish politician.[1]

Political career

Aastrup Jensen been politically active since he as a 14-year-old joined the Young Liberals and the Liberal Party in Randers. In subsequent years he held various positions within these organizations.

In 1998-2006 he was a Member of Randers Town Council and was appointed mayor in 2002.[2] Thus, he became the youngest mayor ever in Denmark.[3]

Member of Parliament, 2005–present

Aastrup Jensen has been a Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party since 2005.[4]

Since the 2015 Danish elections, Aastrup Jensen has been his parliamentary group's spokesman on foreign affairs.[2] He is also a member of numerous committees, including the Danish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.[2] In this capacity, he has been serving as Vice-President of the Assembly (since 2015) and as member of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee).[5] Alongside Kastriot Islami of Albania (2010-2011) and Boriss Cilevičs of Latvia (2012-2015), he also served as the Assembly’s co-rapporteur on the monitoring of Georgia between 2010 and 2015.[6]

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