Bendt Bendtsen
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Bendt Bendtsen MEP |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 1 July 2009 |
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| Constituency | Denmark |
| Member of the Folketing | |
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In office 24 April 1994 – 1 July 2009 |
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| Constituency | Funen County |
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25 March 1954 Odense, Denmark |
| Political party |
 DanishConservative People's Party  EUEuropean People's Party |
| Spouse(s) | Kirsten Bendtsen |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Copenhagen |
| Website | www |
Bendt Bendtsen (born 25 March 1954) is a Danish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Denmark. He is a member of the Conservative People's Party, part of the European People's Party.
Before being elected to the Folketing, he worked in the police in Odense; he became a member of the Odense City Council in 1989, and he was Vice-Chairman of the Odense Criminal Police Association from 1989 to 1992.
Bendt Bendtsen was the Conservative Party's social policy spokesman from 1994 to 1995, its labour market spokesman from 1995 to 1998, and its legal policy spokesman from 1998 to 1999. He became the political leader of the Conservative Party on 5 August 1999 and became the party's Chairman in November 2000. He was the leader of the Conservative People's Party from 1999 to 2008. He was the Minister of Trade and Industry from 2001 to 2008 under Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Bendt Bendtsen was a temporary member of the Folketing for the Conservative Party, representing Funen County constituency, from 5 April to 24 April 1994, and he was subsequently elected as a Conservative member of the Folketing from Funen County constituency in the parliamentary election held on 21 September 1994. He has remained a member of the Folketing since 1994; in the November 2007 parliamentary election he was elected from the Funen greater constituency.
Following the November 2001 parliamentary election, Bendt Bendtsen became Minister for Economic and Business Affairs and Minister for Nordic Cooperation on 27 November 2001 in the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I. He left the post of Minister for Nordic Cooperation on 18 June 2002, but remained Minister for Economic and Business Affairs. He retained the latter post in the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen II (2005) and III (2007). On 9 September 2008, he tendered his resignation as leader of the party, which then elected Lene Espersen as leader, also resigning from his post as minister.
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