Christian Hansen (born 12 August 1963) is a

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politician from

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and former member of the

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from 1998 to 2011, first for the

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and later as an independent. He is the current chairman of Miljøpartiet Fokus. From 1998 to 2010, Hansen served as a representative of the Danish People's Party before resigning from the party on 19 January 2010.Klima og burkaer får DF'er til at forlade partiet
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,'' January 19, 2010. (Danish) Hansen had served as the DPP's spokesman for animal rights.New party today
''Politiken,'' March 11, 2010. He subsequently remained in the Folketing as an independent. On 11 March 2010 Hansen announced the formation of his own party,

Fokus Fokus was a political party in Denmark. The party was founded in 2010, originally as a splinter group of the Danish People’s Party (DF), but the politics of Fokus differed from that of DF on a number of issues. For example, while DF supported ...

. The new party was not able to gather enough supporters of their candidature to be able to run as a party in the 2011 elections to the Folketing, but Hansen and a few others stood as independents, although none of them were elected.

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