Martin Henriksen (Danish politician) explained

Martin Henriksen
Office:Leader of New Right
Term Start:16 April 2024
Predecessor:Pernille Vermund
Term Start2:8 February 2005
Term End2:5 June 2019
Birth Date:1980 1, df=yes
Citizenship:Danish
Committees:Immigration and Integration Policy, Education, Defence Committee, the Greenland Committee, Schleswig Committee, the Faroe Islands Committee and the Council of Europe.
Website:http://www.martinhenriksen.dk

Martin Henriksen (born 25 January 1980 in Tårnby) 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, 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".[1]

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.[2] In February 2022 he withdrew from the party national executive and a few days later left the Danish People's Party altogether.[3]

On 13 June 2023, Henriksen joined the New Right (Nye Borgerlige) political party.[4] 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.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: DF-politiker: Islam er terror. TV2 Nyheder. TV2 Danmark. 22 January 2016.
  2. Web site: Martin Henriksen trækker sig fra DF's hovedbestyrelse. 7 February 2022. TV2.dk.
  3. Web site: Martin Henriksen forlader DF: Hvis jeg blev, ville jeg miste respekten for mig selv . Altinget.dk . 29 July 2023 . 11 February 2022.
  4. News: Restrup . Anne Katrine . 13 June 2023 . Tidligere DF-profil melder sig ind i Nye Borgerlige . . live . 13 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230613093950/https://www.bt.dk/politik/tidligere-df-profil-melder-sig-ind-i-nye-borgerlige . 13 June 2023.
  5. News: Løvkvist . Kasper . Martin Henriksen var kun lige blevet partiformand. Så kom en kender af Nye Borgerlige med en opsigtsvækkende forudsigelse . Berlingske.dk . 17 April 2024 . da.