The National Party ( da, Nationalpartiet) is a center-left political party in

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. It was formed in 2014 by three Danish-Pakistani brothers in opposition to the right wing parties in Denmark.

History

The party was founded in 2014 by

Kashif Ahmad Kashif Ahmad (born 1980) is a Pakistan, Pakistani-Denmark, Danish politician and former member of the municipal council in Hvidovre Municipality. He founded the National Party (Denmark), National Party with his brothers Aamer and Asif Ahmad. In 2 ...

, Aamer Ahmad, and Asif Ahmad. Kashif Ahmad was a member of the municipal council in Hvidovre Municipality when the party was founded, thus giving the party a seat. It did not manage to run for the 2015 election, but several of the individual members ran as independents, including

Yahya Hassan Yahya Hassan (19 May 1995 – 29 April 2020) was a Danish poet and political activist of Palestinian descent, whose poems and public statements criticizing both Islam and Danish policies on migration and participation in armed conflicts mad ...

. In April 2016, the party claimed to have gathered enough signatures to run for the next general election. However, a new digital system of gathering signatures had been implemented by the Ministry of the Interior and of Social Affairs, and problems with this system made many of the National Party's signatures ineligible. In January 2019, party leader Kashif Ahmad left the party in favour of

Alternativet The Alternative ( da, Alternativet) is a green political party in Denmark. The party was publicly launched on 27 November 2013 by former Minister of Culture Uffe Elbæk and Josephine Fock; Elbæk had been a parliamentarian for the Social Liberal ...

. He was succeeded as party leader by his brother

Asif Asif ( ar, آصف) is an Arabic masculine given name. In Persian and Urdu it is often pronounced as 'Asif' or 'Asef' though the original form is 'Asaf'. This name referred to Solomon's vizier in the Islamic tradition, and by extension to a wise, pr ...

References

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