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Denmark’s ‘selfie’ prime minister fights for second term

– Straight to prime minister job –

In 2005, aged just 38 and with only a few months in parliament under her belt, the former member of the European parliament became the first woman to rule the Social Democrats, pulling a disunited party back together after an election defeat.

“She is… very good at one liners, very good at making short statements and this is of course an advantage in an election campaign,” Peter Nedergaard, political science professor at the University of Copenhagen told AFP.

Her marriage to British lawmaker Stephen Kinnock, whom she met at the Bruges College of Europe in 1993, makes her the daughter-in-law of former British Labour Party leader and longtime European Commissioner Neil Kinnock.

Born in the working-class Copenhagen suburb of Ishoj to an office manager mother and economics professor father, Thorning-Schmidt likes to project a down-to-earth image to match the egalitarian policies her country is known for.

The mother-of-two was photographed by paparazzi shovelling snow outside her home in one of Copenhagen’s most upscale neighbourhoods, and her husband – who was elected to the British parliament in last month’s general election – told a journalist he thinks “she’s the only prime minister who does all her own washing”.

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