New Right (Denmark)

The founders of Nye Borgerlige Peter Seier Christensen and Pernille Vermund in Vermund's home village Snekkersten in October 2015 shortly before the official founding of the party

On 24 September 2015, Pernille Vermund and Peter Seier Christensen, both former members of the Conservative People's Party,[11] announced that they were in the process of establishing a new party under the working title Vi Konservative (We Conservative(s))[12] but choose to use the word borgerlig to differentiate themselves from the Conservatives.[13]

The party was officially founded on 19 October 2015 under the name Nye Borgerlige.[14]

On the 21st of September 2016, the party announced that it had gathered the 20,109 signatures required to run in the up-coming general election which turned out to be in June 2019. This eligibility was confirmed by the Minister of the Interior on 6 October where the party received the election letter "D".[15]

After the establishment of the party, municipal council members in several municipalities switched from their original parties to Nye Borgerlige.[16] Most of these were lost in the Danish local elections of 2017, where the party only gained one seat in the municipal council of Hillerød Municipality.[17]

At the 2019 general election was to be called at the party reached 2.4% of the votes, equal to four seats, whereby Nye Borgerlige for the first time reached represented in the Folketing[18][19] with its first parliamentary group consisting of Pernille Vermund, Peter Seier Christensen, Mette Thiesen, and Lars Boje Mathiesen. During its period in Parliament as an opposition party to the social democratic minority government, Nye Borgerlige gained popularity and became well known for their successful social media strategy[20][21][22] in February 2021 becoming Danish party with third most members succeeded by the Social Democrats and Venstre hitting 18,000 members.[23] The same month the party got its highest opinion poll to date suggesting 11%[24] with journalist Lea Korsgaard describing the party as a "cultural phenomenon" in July the same year.[25] The 2021 local elections resulted in a nationwide performance of 3.6% awaring the party 63 seats from the precious single one.[26] Despite this, the party's popularity dwindled especially following the launch of the right-wing-populist party named Denmark Democrats with party leader Inger Støjberg.[27] In the 2022 Danish European Union opt-out referendum Nye Borgerlige campaigned for a no[28] with the result being a yes.[29]

Vermund at Christiansborg Palace on the night of 2022 election who would turn out to be her last election as party leader

At the 2022 general election in November the party received 3.7 of the popular vote accounting to six seats with the four original MPs being re-elected as well as Mikkel Bjørn Sørensen and Kim Edberg Andersen,[30] although Mette Thiesen left the party the same month as the election due to personal issues[31] and would later join Danish People's Party on 6 February 2023.[32] After the election the party dismissed its though seven years press secretary, Lars Kaaber.[33][34]

On 10 January 2023 Pernille Vermund announced that she would step down as leader at the party's next national convention in October or before if the NB's main board choose to call for an extraordinary national convention before that where a new leader would be elected. She added that she would continue as an MP for the remainder of the election period.[35][36][37][38][39][40] In her resignation statement she wrote:[41]

"My goal with Nye Borgerlige has been to give a political home and a voice to the many borgerlige Danes, who in everyday life feel let down by politicians who say one thing and do another. [...] That political home have we with Nye Borgerlige created. We have given the Danes that voice. We have lit that light. And now the flame must be carried on".

Before anyone had announced their intention to run, several news media predicted Mikkel Bjørn Sørensen alongside Lars Boje Mathiesen to be the two main contesters in the leadership election, although neither had announced their intention to run.[42][43][44][45][46] On an extraordinary main board meeting on 17 January, it was decided that the new leader would be elected on an extraordinary annual meeting held on 7 February as well as Boje Mathiesen announcing his candidacy.[47][48] On 24 January 2023, which was the deadline for announcing one's candidacy,[49] Mikkel Bjørn Sørensen left Nye Borgerlige and immediately joined Danish People's Party attributing internal dissagrements and a lack of belief in Boje's abilities to lead as the reason.[50][51][52] The following day, it was announced that no other candidate than Boje had entered the race[53][54] whereby he subsequently took office on 7 February 2023 with Henriette Ergemann as his political deputy leader.[55]