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    Mai Mercado

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    Mai Mercado
    Minister for Children and Social Affairs
    In office
    28 November 2016 – 27 June 2019
    Member of the Folketing
    Incumbent
    Assumed office
    15 September 2011
    ConstituencyFyn
    Personal details
    Born (1980-08-20) 20 August 1980 (age 43)
    Tønder, Denmark
    Political partyConservative People's Party
    Websitewww.maimercado.dk

    Mai Mercado (born 20 August 1980 in Tønder) is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Conservative People's Party. She was elected at the 2011 Danish general election. From 2016 to 2019 she was the Minister for Children and Social Affairs in the Lars Løkke Rasmussen III Cabinet.

    Political career[edit]

    Mercado was a member of the municipal council of Odense Municipality from 2006 to 2011, and served as the second deputy mayor from 2009 to 2011. From 2013 to 2016 she sat in the municipal council of Frederiksberg Municipality.[1]

    She was elected to the Folketing in the 2011 election. On 28 November 2016, she was appointed as Minister for Children and Social Affairs in the Lars Løkke Rasmussen III Cabinet.[2] Shortly after introducing laws which would prohibit troublesome minority protests in Freetown Christiania, she had domestic terrorist Thomas Dall, the nephew of Danish politician Benny Dall, arrested for terroristic threats against her on facebook. Afterwards she left the Folketing.[3]

    Personal life[edit]

    Mercado has a Master of Science from the University of Southern Denmark.[1]

    She is married to Christopher Mercado, with whom she has a son, Winston, and a daughter, Elisa.[4][5]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ a b "Mai Mercado (KF)". Ft.dk. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
    2. ^ "Borgerlig vagthund går fra barsel til ministerkontor". Tv2fyn.dk. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
    3. ^ Ritzau (28 November 2016). "Tre ukendte konservative afløser nye ministre". DR.
    4. ^ Karsten Hüttel (2 June 2016). "Mai Mercado med sin nyfødte Elisa". fyens.dk. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
    5. ^ "Om mig". Maimercado.dk. Retrieved 15 August 2021.

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    Political offices
    Preceded by
    Ellen Trane Nørby
    		 Minister of Children
    2016–2019     		Succeeded by
    Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil
    Preceded by
    Karen Ellemann
    		 Minister for Social Affairs
    2016–2019     		Succeeded by
    Astrid Krag
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