Immigration and Integration Policy, Education, Defence Committee, the Greenland Committee, Schleswig Committee, the Faroe Islands Committee and the Council of Europe.
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]
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