Martin Henriksen (born 25 January 1980) is a Danish politician and since April 2024 leader of the New Right party. He is a former MP, at the time representing the Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti) in Parliament from 8 February 2005 to 5 June 2019 in various constituencies,[1] but left that party in 2022 after losing the election for party leadership. In 2023, he joined the New Right party.

Political career

Henriksen is known as a strong critic of immigration policy in Denmark. In 2016 he claimed on his website that Islam "has since its inception been a terrorist movement".[2]

Henriksen lost his seat in the Danish parliament Folketinget in the 2019 Danish general elections, but remained a member of the party's national executive committee until January 2022, when he unsuccessfully ran for the vacant post as party leader, losing to Morten Messerschmidt.[3] In February 2022 he withdrew from the party national executive and a few days later left the Danish People's Party altogether.[4]

On 13 June 2023, Henriksen joined the New Right (Nye Borgerlige) political party.[5] After Pernille Vermunds surprising exit from that party in January 2024, Henriksen was elected as New Right's new party leader on an extraordinary party conference in April 2024.[6]

References

  1. ^ Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget)
  2. ^ "DF-politiker: Islam er terror". TV2 Nyheder. TV2 Danmark. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  3. ^ "Martin Henriksen trækker sig fra DF's hovedbestyrelse". TV2.dk. 7 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Martin Henriksen forlader DF: Hvis jeg blev, ville jeg miste respekten for mig selv". Altinget.dk. 11 February 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  5. ^ Restrup, Anne Katrine (13 June 2023). "Tidligere DF-profil melder sig ind i Nye Borgerlige". B.T. Archived from the original on 13 June 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  6. ^ Løvkvist, Kasper (17 April 2024). "Martin Henriksen var kun lige blevet partiformand. Så kom en kender af Nye Borgerlige med en opsigtsvækkende forudsigelse". Berlingske.dk (in Danish).


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Henriksen_(Danish_politician)
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