Royal College makes it official: The Liberal Party of Montenbourg wins absolute majority in Parliament House.
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Birgitte Nyborg, on results night.
Montague.- After the Classical Monarchist Party scandal with two candidates of the same party running and voting out former Prime Minister Xavier Bettel. Birgitte Nyborg, the former coalition allied and the Leader of the Liberal Party becomes the first female Prime Minister of Montenbourg.
The Royal College decisively confirmed Birgitte Nyborg on Saturday as the nation’s next Prime Minister, ratifying her party victory on Wednesday. Candidates Underwood and McCord from the Classical Monarchist Party extended her congratulations.
The electors gave the Liberal Party a solid majority of 306 electoral votes to the Classical Monarchists Party 180. In a historical landslide victory of the Liberal Party, after three decades of the CMP governing.
The Right Honourable Birgitte Nyborg (born September 1, 1970) becomes the 45th and current Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Montenbourg.
Borm and raised in Montenbourg capital, Montague. Her father, Ebbe Nyborg, was a photographer. Nyborg's mother, Susanne McCord-Nyborg, aunt of Elizabeth McCord, was a school teacher. Both of her parents were originally from Montenbourg.
After Nyborg graduated from high school in 1988, she went on to Bosco University. She graduated from the Foreign Service at Bosco University in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service in International Politics. She became part of the Foreign Office as third-Secretary of the foreign aid division . In 2003, she decided to run for the Montague City Council as a candidate for the Liberal Party.
Nyborg was elected to the Montague City Council in 2004 by the voters of Montague’s 1st district. During her first term as a member the City Council, she served on the Committee on Tenants Reform. In early 2006, she was re-elected to a second term in City Council. During her second term, Nyborg was assigned to the powerful Committee on Ways and Means.
In November 2007, she announced that she would not seek a third term in the City Council in the 2008 election, but instead would run for the Parliament House. Nyborg narrowly won the Liberal Party nomination at the state convention over businessman Jame Rothschild on June 17, 2008 and in a close race, defeated Classical Monarchist parliament member Anne Linden and Green parliament member Benedict Farmer on November 4, 2008. She was sworn in as a member of Parliament on January 3, 2009, as one of many Liberal Party politicians elected in the 2008 elections. As a Parliamentarian, Nyborg served on the Finance Committee, the Foreign Relations Committee and the Judiciary Committee.
Nyborg was re-elected to second term on November 4, 2014. On July 6, 2016, she announced that she was forming a Prime Minister exploratory committee. Nyborg officially announced her candidacy for the Liberal Party nomination for the Premiership on August 3, 2015. On June 7, 2016, she secured the nominating threshold of delegates to become the Liberal Party's presumptive nominee with her victory in the Bordeaux primary. On July 8, 2016, Nyborg on a tiene vote against the Classical Monarchists secured a coalition government, without her in cabinet but with members of her party.
On June, 2021, she formally ended the coalition government with Xavier Bettel under a scandal with the price of tenants and put a no-confidence vote, resulting in the calling of general elections. On Saturday, July 3, 2021, Nyborg was elected 45th Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Montenbourg, beating incumbent party Classical Monarchists under their candidates Frank Underwood, former Minister of Commerce, and Elizabeth McCord, incumbent Minister of Foreign Affairs.
She was inaugurated and sworn into the premiership by former Chief Justice of the Royal Court Clarisse Bourgeon on Saturday July 3, 2021. Nyborg is the first female Prime Minister in Montenbourg’s history and first person elected in three decades from the Liberal Party since Goddard Meier.