Martin Henriksen | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Martin Henriksen | |
| Leader ofNew Right | |
| In office 16 April 2024 – 27 April 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Pernille Vermund |
| Succeeded by | Susanne Borggaard |
| Member of theFolketing | |
| In office 8 February 2005 – 5 June 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1980-01-25)25 January 1980 (age 45) |
| 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) is a former Danish politician and since April 2024 to April 2025 leader of theNew Right party. He is a former MP, at the time representing theDanish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti) in Parliament from 8 February 2005 to 5 June 2019 in various constituencies,[1] but left that party in 2022 after losing the election for party leadership. In 2023, he joined the New Right party.
Henriksen is known as a strong critic ofimmigration 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 parliamentFolketinget in the2019 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 toMorten 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, Henriksen joined theNew Right (Nye Borgerlige) political party.[5] AfterPernille Vermund's surprising exit from that party in January 2024, Henriksen was elected as New Right's new party leader on an extraordinary party conference in April 2024.[6]
He announced in April 2025 he was retiring from politics and would not run for reelection as party chair.[7]
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