Martin Henriksen | |
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Member of the Danish Parliament for Copenhagen | |
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 in Tårnby) is a Danish politician and former MP, representing the Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti) in Parliament from 8 February 2005 to 5 June 2019 in various constituencies,[1] but left the 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, he joined the New Right (Nye Borgerlige) political party.[5]
References
- ↑ Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget)
- ↑ "DF-politiker: Islam er terror". TV2 Nyheder. TV2 Danmark. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
- ↑ "Martin Henriksen trækker sig fra DF's hovedbestyrelse". TV2.dk. 7 February 2022.
- ↑ "Martin Henriksen forlader DF: Hvis jeg blev, ville jeg miste respekten for mig selv". Altinget.dk. 11 February 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
- ↑ Restrup, Anne Katrine (13 June 2023). "Tidligere DF-profil melder sig ind i Nye Borgerlige". B.T. Archived from the original on 13 June 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2023.