Meet Pernille Vermund, new Danish anti-migrant leader who wants OUT of EU & strong UK ties
DENMARK should ban headscarves in schools, have stricter controls on migrants and leave the European Union, according to the leader of the country’s newest far-right party.
By KATIE MANSFIELD
Express.co.uk
Mon, Feb 6, 2017
Pernille Vermund plans to overhaul Danish politics and provide a new challenge to the government in local elections later this year.
The 41-year-old leader of Nye Borgerlige or ‘The New Right’ has called for stricter controls on migrants and refugees and wants a ban on headscarves in schools and public institutions.
Ms Vermund wants to limit Danish citizenship to people who “contribute positively” to society and have a job and only give asylum to refugees from the UN’s refugee agency’s resettlement scheme.
She said: “Those who don’t have the ability to provide for themselves, we have to ask them to find another place to stay.”
The former member of the Conservative People’s Party plans to challenge the anti-immigrant Danish People’s Party (DPP) with her party’s strict migrant stance.
Denmark started imposing the emergency border controls from September 2015 as more than one million migrants arrived in the EU.
EU envoys agreed last week to extend emergency border controls inside the Schengen zone for another three months to mid-May.
Nye Borgerlige was founded in 2015 by Ms Vermund and Peter Seier Christensen after the pair clashed with the Conservative’s over EU membership, Europol and Ms Vermund’s failed attempt to become an MP.
Ms Vermund, a divorced mother-of-three, is a trained architect from Snekkersten, a suburb north of Copenhagen.
She entered politics in 2009 when she was elected to the Helsingor City Council for the Consevrative People’s Party.
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