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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. Mai voiced public support for police enforcement action taken against illegal hash stalls in Haderslev. This prompted a local man named Thomas Dall, the nephew of Danish politician Benny Dall to make terroristic death threats against Mai and her entire family on Facebook,[3] a crime for which he was tried, arrested and served time for. Afterwards she left the Folketing.[4]

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.[5][6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Mai Mercado (KF)". Ft.dk. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  • ^ "Borgerlig vagthund går fra barsel til ministerkontor". Tv2fyn.dk. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  • ^ Ray W (21 June 2016). "Danish MP receives death threats after praising police anti-drug raids on Facebook". CPHPost.dk.
  • ^ Ritzau (28 November 2016). "Tre ukendte konservative afløser nye ministre". DR.
  • ^ Karsten Hüttel (2 June 2016). "Mai Mercado med sin nyfødte Elisa". fyens.dk. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  • ^ "Om mig". Maimercado.dk. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  • External links[edit]

    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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