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Nye Borgerlige (NB for short and often translated as the New Right) is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Denmark. Formed by Pernille Vermund and Peter Seier Christensen in 2015, it first entered the Folketing in 2019 with four seats (out of 179) and again in 2022 with six. After three defections in the first months after the election, by March 2023 the party's number of seats in the Folketing was reduced to three.
Having been chairman throughout its existence, Vermund resigned in January 2023. Lars Boje Mathiesen succeeded her in February but was expelled after just 30 days in office. With two MFs having left before then, Vermund took over again as de facto chairman, being officially reelected in October.
However, in January 2024, she announced that she had left the party, recommending the dissolution of Nye Borgerlige to its national executive, and that the party's parliamentary group had dissolved itself. The national executive announced that it would make a plan for the party's dissolution. Several local party activists opposed the plan, however, and an extraordinary party conference in April 2024 decided to carry on the party, choosing Martin Henriksen as its new leader.
The youth wing of the party was Nye Borgerliges Ungdom (NBU) until its dissolution in March 2024.
On 24 September 2015, architect Pernille Vermund and chemical engineer Peter Seier Christensen announced that they were in the process of establishing a new political party with the working title "We Conservatives" (Vi Konservative), but instead settled on the name "Nye Borgerlige". Both founders were former members of the Conservative People's Party for which party Vermund had served as a Helsingør Municipality councilor from the 2009 municipal election until 2011. On 20 October 2015, they launched the party website and published a political program (principprogram). In an interview to B.T. on the same day, Vermund and Seier described their policies as "a mix of the Danish People's Party and the Liberal Alliance" and told that 360 people had joined. The party was founded in response to the then-government's handling of the 2015 European migrant crisis.
On 21 September 2016, the founders announced that they had gathered the 20,109 signatures – amounting to one 175th of valid votes cast at the previous general election – required to run in the next election. They held their first official press conference in Copenhagen one day later, notably emphasizing the party's three "non-negotiable demands" (ufravigelige krav) as a prerequisite for backing any government; these were a total asylum freeze, eviction of criminal foreigners after their first conviction, and that foreigners staying in Denmark must be able to support themselves. The party's eligibility to run was officially approved by the Ministry of the Interior on 6 October, when the party was assigned its requested election letter D. In October, Progress Party stopped collecting signatures to support Nye Borgerlige because they "have taken over the Progress Party's old messages".
On 12 November 2016, Nye Borgerlige held its first annual party conference in Fredericia with about 400 attendees, while at the time reporting 2,773 members with nine municipal councillors quickly changed their party affiliation to it. Market research firm Gallup polled in November 2016 and determined that the party would primarily obtain its voters from the Danish People's Party. Running in 61 out of the 98 municipalities during the 2017 local elections, Nye Borgerlige secured 0.9% of the vote nationally, acquiring just one out of the 2,432 municipal councilors nationwide – the one awarded to incumbent councilor Mette Thiesen in Hillerød Municipality who had been elected for the Conservative People's Party in 2013.
In the election campaign before the 2019 general election, Nye Borgerlige was unexpectedly challenged by the sudden emergence of the far-right party Stram Kurs, but at the election on 5 June, Nye Borgerlige obtained 2.4% of the vote, equal to four seats, whereby the party entered the Folketing, whereas Stram Kurs with 1.8% did not surpass the 2% threshold. NB's first parliamentary group consisted of Pernille Vermund (South Jutland), Peter Seier Christensen (Zealand), Mette Thiesen (North Zealand), and Lars Boje Mathiesen (East Jutland). As the majority in Parliament shifted to the left at the election, the leader of the Social Democrats Mette Frederiksen formed the same month a minority government (Frederiksen I) to which Nye Borgerlige would serve as an opposition party.
New Right (Denmark)
Nye Borgerlige (NB for short and often translated as the New Right) is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Denmark. Formed by Pernille Vermund and Peter Seier Christensen in 2015, it first entered the Folketing in 2019 with four seats (out of 179) and again in 2022 with six. After three defections in the first months after the election, by March 2023 the party's number of seats in the Folketing was reduced to three.
Having been chairman throughout its existence, Vermund resigned in January 2023. Lars Boje Mathiesen succeeded her in February but was expelled after just 30 days in office. With two MFs having left before then, Vermund took over again as de facto chairman, being officially reelected in October.
However, in January 2024, she announced that she had left the party, recommending the dissolution of Nye Borgerlige to its national executive, and that the party's parliamentary group had dissolved itself. The national executive announced that it would make a plan for the party's dissolution. Several local party activists opposed the plan, however, and an extraordinary party conference in April 2024 decided to carry on the party, choosing Martin Henriksen as its new leader.
The youth wing of the party was Nye Borgerliges Ungdom (NBU) until its dissolution in March 2024.
On 24 September 2015, architect Pernille Vermund and chemical engineer Peter Seier Christensen announced that they were in the process of establishing a new political party with the working title "We Conservatives" (Vi Konservative), but instead settled on the name "Nye Borgerlige". Both founders were former members of the Conservative People's Party for which party Vermund had served as a Helsingør Municipality councilor from the 2009 municipal election until 2011. On 20 October 2015, they launched the party website and published a political program (principprogram). In an interview to B.T. on the same day, Vermund and Seier described their policies as "a mix of the Danish People's Party and the Liberal Alliance" and told that 360 people had joined. The party was founded in response to the then-government's handling of the 2015 European migrant crisis.
On 21 September 2016, the founders announced that they had gathered the 20,109 signatures – amounting to one 175th of valid votes cast at the previous general election – required to run in the next election. They held their first official press conference in Copenhagen one day later, notably emphasizing the party's three "non-negotiable demands" (ufravigelige krav) as a prerequisite for backing any government; these were a total asylum freeze, eviction of criminal foreigners after their first conviction, and that foreigners staying in Denmark must be able to support themselves. The party's eligibility to run was officially approved by the Ministry of the Interior on 6 October, when the party was assigned its requested election letter D. In October, Progress Party stopped collecting signatures to support Nye Borgerlige because they "have taken over the Progress Party's old messages".
On 12 November 2016, Nye Borgerlige held its first annual party conference in Fredericia with about 400 attendees, while at the time reporting 2,773 members with nine municipal councillors quickly changed their party affiliation to it. Market research firm Gallup polled in November 2016 and determined that the party would primarily obtain its voters from the Danish People's Party. Running in 61 out of the 98 municipalities during the 2017 local elections, Nye Borgerlige secured 0.9% of the vote nationally, acquiring just one out of the 2,432 municipal councilors nationwide – the one awarded to incumbent councilor Mette Thiesen in Hillerød Municipality who had been elected for the Conservative People's Party in 2013.
In the election campaign before the 2019 general election, Nye Borgerlige was unexpectedly challenged by the sudden emergence of the far-right party Stram Kurs, but at the election on 5 June, Nye Borgerlige obtained 2.4% of the vote, equal to four seats, whereby the party entered the Folketing, whereas Stram Kurs with 1.8% did not surpass the 2% threshold. NB's first parliamentary group consisted of Pernille Vermund (South Jutland), Peter Seier Christensen (Zealand), Mette Thiesen (North Zealand), and Lars Boje Mathiesen (East Jutland). As the majority in Parliament shifted to the left at the election, the leader of the Social Democrats Mette Frederiksen formed the same month a minority government (Frederiksen I) to which Nye Borgerlige would serve as an opposition party.