Ida Margrete Meier Auken is a Danish politician and member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. She has been a member of parliament since 2007. She was Minister for the Environment of Denmark from 2011 to 2014. Until 2014 she was a member of the Socialist People's Party, after which she moved to the Danish Social Liberal Party. In 2021, she switched to the Social Democrats.
Auken in March 2022
Social Democrats (Denmark)
The Social Democrats is a social democratic political party in Denmark. A member of the Party of European Socialists (PES), the Social Democrats have 50 out of 179 members of the Danish parliament, Folketing, and three out of fourteen MEPs elected from Denmark.
Socialist pioneer Louis Pio, founder and first leader of the Social Democrats (1871–1872) and 1875–1877).
Thorvald Stauning, the party's first Prime Minister (1924–1926 and 1929–1942) on his 1935 Stauning or Chaos election poster.
Social Democrats election poster for the October 1945 general election.
Current chairperson of the Social Democrats and Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen.