 Unless his full name is used, he is correctly referred to only by the name of Rasmussen, but his middle name is used frequently by the media and in informal usage to distinguish him from Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, his two immediate predecessors as Prime Minister (to whom he is not related).He graduated from high school in 1983, and was the president of the youth branch of Venstre from 1986 to 1989.He graduated with a law degree (cand.