Pernille Vermund
MF
Leader of New Right
In office
28 October 2023 – 10 January 2024
Preceded byLars Boje Mathiesen
In office
19 October 2015 – 7 February 2023
Succeeded byLars Boje Mathiesen
Member of the Folketing
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 the Folketing since 2019. She is known for co-founding and being the leader of the national-conservative political party Nye 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 the Liberal Alliance.

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

Background

Vermund is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and 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 former DBU director Claus Bretton-Meyer.[3]

Political career

Vermund was a member of the Conservative People's Party and sat on the municipal council in Helsingør Municipality for the party from 2009 to 2011.[4] In October 2015, she co-founded the New Right party with Peter Seier Christensen. Vermund stated that she founded the party as she felt her old party had become too soft on the issues of immigration and the European Union.[5] Vermund was elected to the Folketing in 2019.[6] In January 2023, Vermund announced she would not be standing for re-election at the next Danish general election and would therefore be resigning as leader of New Right in the coming year.[7] On 7 February 2023 she was succeeded by Lars Boje Mathiesen as party leader.[8]

A month later on 10 March 2023, it was announced that the national executive of Nye Borgerlige the day before had unanimously chosen to dismiss Boje Mathiesen as party leader and expel him from the party after disputes over remuneration and campaign finances.[9][10] Following the expulsion of Boje, Vermund conveyed her willingness to once again take over as party leader[11][12] and to run in the next general election.[13] In October 2023, she was unanimously elected as party chairman once more.[14]

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 become independents. She also recommended the dissolution of the party.[15] On 16 January the party's parliamentary group was formally dissolved, though the party itself still existed.[16] On the following day, Vermund announced she had joined Liberal Alliance.[17] She explained in a newspaper interview that the leader of Liberal Alliance Alex Vanopslagh had 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.[18]

Vermund's personal vote performance
Election Party Election area Votes
2009 local elections K Helsingør 331[19]
2015 general election K North Zealand 2,028[20]
2019 general election NB South Jutland 13,391[21]
2022 general election NB South Jutland 15,375[22]

References

  1. ^ ""Det gør ondt": Vermund opgiver sit arkitektfirma". Finans. JP/Politikens Hus. Archived from the original on 19 October 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Nye Borgerliges formand er blevet gift med rigmand". Politiken (in Danish). 11 May 2019. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Pernille Vermund jubler: Skal giftes". SE og HØR (in Danish). 14 March 2023. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  4. ^ "Pernille Vermund bliver konservativ folketingskandidat". nsnet.dk. Lokalavisen Nordsjælland. 5 February 2014. Archived from the original on 17 February 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  5. ^ Karker, Andreas (20 October 2015). "Nyt parti udfordrer LA og DF: Vi er de RIGTIGE konservative". www.bt.dk (in Danish). Archived from the original on 12 July 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  6. ^ "Pernille Vermund (NB)". Ft.dk. Archived from the original on 11 June 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  7. ^ "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. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  8. ^ "Lars Boje er valgt som formand for Nye Borgerlige". www.bt.dk (in Danish). 7 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  9. ^ "Lars Boje Mathiesen er blevet ekskluderet fra Nye Borgerlige". DR (in Danish). 9 March 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  10. ^ "Lars Boje skyder med skarpt: Jeg overtog et parti i ruiner". DR (in Danish). 10 March 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  11. ^ "Vermund vil være formand: 'Jeg er på ny klar til at tage os videre og kæmpe'". DR (in Danish). 10 March 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  12. ^ 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). Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  13. ^ "Lars Boje-skandale tvinger Vermund til at stille op igen ved næste folketingsvalg - TV 2". nyheder.tv2.dk (in Danish). 13 March 2023. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  14. ^ "Nye Borgerlige bløder medlemmer - og fire andre nedslag fra årsmødet - TV 2". nyheder.tv2.dk (in Danish). 28 October 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
  15. ^ "Vermund vil lukke sit parti – men kommer det til at ske?". Kristeligt Dagblad (in Danish). 10 January 2024. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  16. ^ "Nye Borgerlige får sidste dødsstød på Christiansborg - TV 2". nyheder.tv2.dk (in Danish). 16 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  17. ^ "Pernille Vermund bliver medlem af Liberal Alliance - TV 2". nyheder.tv2.dk (in Danish). 17 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  18. ^ "Pernille Vermund skifter til Liberal Alliance". DR (in Danish). 17 January 2024. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  19. ^ "Personlige stemmer - Kommunalvalg Helsingør kommune". www.kmdvalg.dk. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  20. ^ "Resultater - Nordsjællands Storkreds - Folketingsvalg torsdag 18. juni 2015 - Danmarks Statistik". www.dst.dk. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  21. ^ "Resultater - Sydjyllands Storkreds - Folketingsvalg onsdag 5. juni 2019 - Danmarks Statistik". www.dst.dk. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  22. ^ "Resultater - Sydjyllands Storkreds - Folketingsvalg tirsdag 1. november 2022 - Danmarks Statistik". www.dst.dk. Retrieved 2 February 2023.

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