Niels Johannes Lebech is a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 politician and member of the European Parliament

European Parliament

The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...

 and former Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs

Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs of Denmark

Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs of Denmark is a Danish political minister office. The main responsibility of the minister is the Danish People's Church....

 for the Danish Social Liberal Party. Lebech was Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs from 21 December 2000 to 27 November 2001 in the Cabinet of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen IV

Cabinet of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen IV

After the 1998 Danish parliamentary election, the sitting Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen was able to reform the government coalition of his own Social Democrats and the Danish Social Liberal Party...

 and party chairman of the Danish Social Liberal Party from 1997 to 2000.

Lebech has been a member of the European Parliament since 29 November 2007, replacing Anders Samuelsen

Anders Samuelsen

Anders Samuelsen is a Danish politician, member of the Folketing with the Liberal Alliance and former Member of the European Parliament sitting on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets. He is a former member of Det Radikale Venstre, and was a Member of the Bureau of the Alliance of...

 who was elected into the Danish parliament in the 2007 election

Danish parliamentary election, 2007

The 66th Folketing election in Denmark was held on 13 November 2007. The election allowed prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to continue for a third term in a coalition government consisting of the Liberals and the Conservative People's Party with parliamentary support from the Danish People's...

 for the New Alliance

New Alliance (Denmark)

The Liberal Alliance is a classical liberal political party in Denmark. Founded in 2007 as the New Alliance , the party was the first new major Danish political party in a decade...

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External links

• johanneslebech.dk
• European Parliament biography
• Declaration of financial interests (PDF
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