Martin Henriksen | |
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![]() Martin Henriksen | |
Leader of New Right | |
Assumed office 16 April 2024 | |
Preceded by | Pernille Vermund |
Member of the Folketing | |
In office 8 February 2005 –5 June 2019 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Tårnby | 25 January 1980
Citizenship | Danish |
Political party | (from 2023) New Right (until 2022) Danish People's Party |
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) 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.
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]
He announced in April 2025 he was retiring from politics and would not run for reelection as party chair. [7]