New Right ( da, Nye Borgerlige) is a

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. The party was founded in the autumn 2015 by

Pernille Vermund Ann Pernille Vermund Tvede (born 3 December 1975) is a Danish architect ( MAA) and politician known for co-founding and being the leader of the national-conservative political party Nye Borgerlige from 2015 until 2023. She was previously affilia ...

and Peter Seier Christensen. In the 2019 general election New Right won four seats. The party has the party letter D, and its youth organisation is named Nye Borgerliges Ungdom (NBU) or in English (''New Right's Youth).'' In February 2021 the party was the third largest Danish party based on membership, only succeeded by the

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and Venstre. The party has in November the same year 18,000 members.

Etymology

The party's name includes the plural of the Danish word which literally translates to 'civic', derived from meaning 'citizen'. It is the usual Danish term for non-socialist parties in general, and the country's right-of-centre parties in particular. As a

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term, the word has the meaning '

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'. Imperfect translations include 'right-wing', 'conservative', 'civic', or 'bourgeoise'. Thus, alternative translations of the party name would be ''New Conservatives'', ''New Civic Party'', and similar.

History

The party’s beginning

On 24 September 2015, Pernille Vermund and Peter Seier Christensen, both former members of the Conservative People’s Party, announced that they were in the process of establishing a new party under the working title (''We Conservative''). Folkemodet Nye Borgerlige 5895 (27791559265)

Folkemodet Nye Borgerlige 5895 (27791559265)

The party was officially founded on 19 October 2015 under the name Nye Borgerlige. On the 21st of September 2016, the party announced that it had gathered the 20,109 signatures required to run for the next general election. This was confirmed by the

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on 6th October. After the establishment of the party, municipal council members in several municipalities switched from their original parties to the New Right. Most of these were lost in the Danish local elections of 2017, where the party only gained a seat on the municipal council in

Hillerød Hillerød () is a Denmark, Danish town with a population of 35,357 (1 January 2022)2019 general election the party reached 2.4% of the votes, equal to four seats, whereby Nye Borgerlige for the first time became represented in parliament.

Political positions

Nye Borgerlige doesn’t consider itself to be ideologic bound but defines itself by virtue of its conservative standpoint as a party, that “take starting point in the given and want to develop society based on knowledge and experience rather than revolutionising based on the backgrounds of faith and ideology”. The party supports Denmark leaving the EU and combines according to their party program “a classical conservative value-based policy with a right-wing orgerligeconomic policy and an unambiguous resistance towards conventions and supranational agreements limiting Danish democracy.” With this combination the party is located on the right of the

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regarding both the distribution and value dimension. The parties five main principles are: * A strong cultural community of values; * Less state, more human; * Commons responsibility for society’s weakest; * Reasonable protection of natural values; * Freedom, democracy, and national sovereignty.

Election results

Parliament (
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)

Local elections

References

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