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Martin Henriksen (born 25 January 1980) is a Danish politician and since April 2024 leader of the New Right party. He is a former MP, at the time representing the Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti) in Parliament from 8 February 2005 to 5 June 2019 in various constituencies, but left that 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".
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. In February 2022 he withdrew from the party national executive and a few days later left the Danish People's Party altogether.
On 13 June 2023, Henriksen joined the New Right (Nye Borgerlige) political party. After Pernille Vermunds 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.