Pernille Vermund

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.

• Name — Pernille Vermund • Honorific Suffix — MF • Office — Leader of New Right • Term Start — 28 October 2023 • Term End — 10 January 2024 • Predecessor — Lars Boje Mathiesen • Successor — Martin Henriksen • Term Start1 — 19 October 2015 • Term End1 — 7 February 2023 • Predecessor1 — Office established • Successor1 — Lars Boje Mathiesen • Office2 — Member of the Folketing • Term Start2 — 5 June 2019 • Constituency2 — South Jutland • Birth Name — Ann Pernille Vermund Tvede • Born — 3 December 1975 • Birthplace — Copenhagen, Denmark • Party — Liberal Alliance (since 2024) • Education — Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts • Other Party — Conservative People's (2009–2015) New Right (2015–2024)

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. 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. In 2021, they were divorced, and in March 2022 she announced her engagement to former DBU director Claus Bretton-Meyer.

Politicians 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. In October 2015, she co-founded the New Right party with Peter 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 the European Union. 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 a classical liberal politician. Vermund was elected to the Folketing in 2019. In January 2023, Vermund announced that she would resign as party leader and would not be standing for re-election to Parliament at the next Danish general election. On 7 February 2023 she was succeeded by Lars Boje Mathiesen as party leader. However, a month later Mathiesen was suddenly expelled from the party by its national executive after disputes over remuneration and campaign finances. Following the expulsion of Boje, Vermund conveyed her willingness to once again take over as party leader and to run in the next general election. In October 2023, she was unanimously elected as party chairman once more. • Illustration — Vermund at the 2025 opening of the Danish parliament 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. On 16 January the party's parliamentary group was formally dissolved, though the party itself still existed. On the following day, Vermund announced she had joined Liberal Alliance. 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. Vermund's personal vote performance • Election — Party — Election area — Votes • 2009 local elections — K — Helsingør — 331 • 2015 general election — K — North Zealand — 2,028 • 2019 general election — NB — South Jutland — 13,391 • 2022 general election — NB — South Jutland — 15,375 • 2026 general election — LA — Zealand — 5,751

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