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Pernille Vermund

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Pernille Vermund
MF
Leader ofNew Right
In office
28 October 2023 – 10 January 2024
Preceded byLars Boje Mathiesen
Succeeded byMartin Henriksen
In office
19 October 2015 – 7 February 2023
Succeeded byLars Boje Mathiesen
Member of theFolketing
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 June 2019
ConstituencySouth Jutland
Personal details
Born
Ann Pernille Vermund Tvede

(1975-12-03)3 December 1975(age 48)
Copenhagen,Denmark
Political partyLiberal Alliance(2024–present)
Other political
affiliations		Conservative People's Party(2009–2015)
New Right(2015–2024)
Alma materRoyal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

Ann Pernille Vermund Bretton-Meyer(born 3 December 1975) is a Danish architect (MAA) and politician, being a member of theFolketingsince 2019. She is known for co-founding and being the leader of thenational-conservativepolitical partyNye Borgerlige(New Right) from its founding in 2015 until February 2023 and again from October 2023 to January 2024. On 10 January 2024, she surprisingly announced that she had left Nye Borgerlige, recommending its dissolution. A week later, she joined the parliamentary group of theLiberal Alliance.

Before the founding of Nye Borgerlige in 2015, Vermund was affiliated with theConservative People's Party.

Background

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Vermund is a graduate of theRoyal Danish Academy of Fine Artsand worked as an architect before entering politics. She was the owner of the company Vermund Gere Arkitekter MAA.[1]Vermund is divorced from her first husband Johnny Gere and is the mother of three boys. In 2019, she married Danish author and businessman Lars Tvede.[2]In 2021, they were divorced, and in March 2022 she announced her engagement to formerDBUdirector Claus Bretton-Meyer.[3]

Political career

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Vermund was a member of theConservative People's Partyand sat on the municipal council inHelsingør Municipalityfor the party from 2009 to 2011.[4]In October 2015, she co-founded the New Right party withPeter Seier Christensen.Vermund said at the time that she founded the party as she felt her old party had become too soft on the issues of immigration and theEuropean Union.[5]In 2024, she stated that she had left the Conservative People's Party because she was "too liberal"to stay there, and that retrospectively she regretted some of her earlier statements in the immigration debate. She also stated that ideologically she was predominantly aclassical liberalpolitician.[6]

Vermund was elected to theFolketingin 2019.[7]In January 2023, Vermund announced that she would resign as party leader and would not be standing for re-election to Parliament at thenext Danish general election.[8]On 7 February 2023 she was succeeded byLars Boje Mathiesenas party leader.[9]However, a month later Mathiesen was suddenly expelled from the party by its national executive after disputes over remuneration and campaign finances.[10][11]Following the expulsion of Boje, Vermund conveyed her willingness to once again take over as party leader[12][13]and to run in thenext general election.[14]In October 2023, she was unanimously elected as party chairman once more.[15]

On 10 January 2024, Vermund surprisingly announced that the party's parliamentary group would be dissolved, as she together with the remaining two MPs vould leave Nye Borgerlige in order to becomeindependents.She also recommended the dissolution of the party.[16]On 16 January the party's parliamentary group was formally dissolved, though the party itself still existed.[17]On the following day, Vermund announced she had joinedLiberal Alliance.[18]She explained in a newspaper interview that the leader of Liberal AllianceAlex Vanopslaghhad told her in December 2023 that she would be welcome in that party, after which she had considered the situation and made her decision to leave the party she had founded.[19]

Vermund's personal vote performance
Election Party Election area Votes
2009 local elections K Helsingør 331[20]
2015 general election K North Zealand 2,028[21]
2019 general election NB South Jutland 13,391[22]
2022 general election NB South Jutland 15,375[23]

References

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  1. ^""Det gør ondt": Vermund opgiver sit arkitektfirma ".Finans.JP/Politikens Hus.Archivedfrom the original on 19 October 2020.Retrieved29 December2020.
  2. ^"Nye Borgerliges formand er blevet gift med rigmand".Politiken(in Danish). 11 May 2019.Archivedfrom the original on 12 November 2020.Retrieved14 December2021.
  3. ^"Pernille Vermund jubler: Skal giftes".SE og HØR(in Danish). 14 March 2023.Retrieved6 April2023.
  4. ^"Pernille Vermund bliver konservativ folketingskandidat".nsnet.dk.Lokalavisen Nordsjælland. 5 February 2014.Archivedfrom the original on 17 February 2016.Retrieved12 May2016.
  5. ^Karker, Andreas (20 October 2015)."Nyt parti udfordrer LA og DF: Vi er de RIGTIGE konservative".www.bt.dk(in Danish).Archivedfrom the original on 12 July 2022.Retrieved14 December2021.
  6. ^Tidemann, Daniel (24 August 2024)."Liberal Alliances nye erhvervsordfører fortryder sin rolle i udlændingedebatten: »Jeg var i den grad ansvarlig for, hvordan jeg selv kommunikerede«".Berlingske.dk(in Danish).
  7. ^"Pernille Vermund (NB)".Ft.dk.Archivedfrom the original on 11 June 2021.Retrieved21 August2021.
  8. ^"Pernille Vermund stopper som formand i løbet af i år: 'Vi må se, hvem der melder sig på banen'".DR(in Danish). 10 January 2023.Retrieved10 January2023.
  9. ^"Lars Boje er valgt som formand for Nye Borgerlige".www.bt.dk(in Danish). 7 February 2023.Retrieved7 February2023.
  10. ^"Lars Boje Mathiesen er blevet ekskluderet fra Nye Borgerlige".DR(in Danish). 9 March 2023.Retrieved12 March2023.
  11. ^"Lars Boje skyder med skarpt: Jeg overtog et parti i ruiner".DR(in Danish). 10 March 2023.Retrieved12 March2023.
  12. ^"Vermund vil være formand: 'Jeg er på ny klar til at tage os videre og kæmpe'".DR(in Danish). 10 March 2023.Retrieved13 March2023.
  13. ^Redder, Anders; Abrahamsen, Sebastian (10 March 2023)."En intern mail fra Vermund afslører, at Lars Bojes eksklusion er en kamp om Nye Borgerliges dna".Jyllands-Posten(in Danish).Retrieved12 March2023.
  14. ^"Lars Boje-skandale tvinger Vermund til at stille op igen ved næste folketingsvalg - TV 2".nyheder.tv2.dk(in Danish). 13 March 2023.Retrieved4 April2023.
  15. ^"Nye Borgerlige bløder medlemmer - og fire andre nedslag fra årsmødet - TV 2".nyheder.tv2.dk(in Danish). 28 October 2023.Retrieved5 November2023.
  16. ^"Vermund vil lukke sit parti – men kommer det til at ske?".Kristeligt Dagblad(in Danish). 10 January 2024.Retrieved31 January2024.
  17. ^"Nye Borgerlige får sidste dødsstød på Christiansborg - TV 2".nyheder.tv2.dk(in Danish). 16 January 2024.Retrieved17 January2024.
  18. ^"Pernille Vermund bliver medlem af Liberal Alliance - TV 2".nyheder.tv2.dk(in Danish). 17 January 2024.Retrieved17 January2024.
  19. ^"Pernille Vermund skifter til Liberal Alliance".DR(in Danish). 17 January 2024.Retrieved31 January2024.
  20. ^"Personlige stemmer - Kommunalvalg Helsingør kommune".www.kmdvalg.dk.Retrieved2 February2023.
  21. ^"Resultater - Nordsjællands Storkreds - Folketingsvalg torsdag 18. juni 2015 - Danmarks Statistik".www.dst.dk.Retrieved2 February2023.
  22. ^"Resultater - Sydjyllands Storkreds - Folketingsvalg onsdag 5. juni 2019 - Danmarks Statistik".www.dst.dk.Retrieved2 February2023.
  23. ^"Resultater - Sydjyllands Storkreds - Folketingsvalg tirsdag 1. november 2022 - Danmarks Statistik".www.dst.dk.Retrieved2 February2023.

General references

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  • Vermund, Pernille; Asger Garde (2022).Borgerlige tanker: taler og artikler 2015-22[Civil Thoughts: Speeches and Articles 2015-22] (in Danish). Ålsgårde: Peter La Cour.ISBN978-87-88606-54-6.OCLC1346842929.
  • Karker, Andreas (2018).Værdikrigeren: et portræt af Pernille Vermund[The Value Warrior: A Portrait of Pernille Vermund] (in Danish). Kbh.: Gyldendal.ISBN978-87-02-26971-0.OCLC1091767475.
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