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.
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]