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Biography
Michael Aastrup Jensen (born 16 March 1976 in Roskilde) is a Danish politician.
Political career
Aastrup Jensen been politically active since he as a 14-year-old joined the Young Liberals and the Liberal Party in Randers. In subsequent years he held various positions within these organizations.
In 1998-2006 he was a Member of Randers Town Council and was appointed mayor in 2002. Thus, he became the youngest mayor ever in Denmark.
Member of Parliament, 2005–present
Aastrup Jensen has been a Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party since 2005.
Since the 2015 Danish elections, Aastrup Jensen has been his parliamentary group's spokesman on foreign affairs. He is also a member of numerous committees, including the Danish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In this capacity, he has been serving as Vice-President of the Assembly (since 2015) and as member of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee). Alongside Kastriot Islami of Albania (2010-2011) and Boriss Cilevičs of Latvia (2012-2015), he also served as the Assembly’s co-rapporteur on the monitoring of Georgia between 2010 and 2015.