The Danish People's Party (Danish: Dansk Folkeparti) is a social conservative, nationalist, far right political party in Denmark. In the 2005 parliamentary elections, it took 24 seats out of 179 (an increase of 2 seats), with 13.3% of the vote, making it the third largest party in Denmark. This work is copyrighted. ... Pia Kjærsgaard Pia Merete Kjærsgaard (born February 23, 1947 in Copenhagen) is a Danish politician. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Christiansborg Palace Christiansborg Palace Christiansborg Palace at night Christiansborg Palace on Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen is the home of Denmarks three supreme powers: the royal power, the legislative power, and the judicial power. ... For other uses, see Copenhagen (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... UEN logo The Union for Europe of the Nations is a nationalist and (mostly) euro-sceptic party grouping with seats in the European Parliament. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Nationalism is an ideology that creates and sustains a nation as a concept of a common identity for groups of humans. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into far right. ... Legislative elections were held in Denmark on February 8, 2005. ...

Since 2001 the party has supported a government consisting of the Liberal and Conservative parties. The Danish Parliamentary Election of 2001 held on November 20, 2001 saw a dramatic change in the political composition of the Danish parliament or Folketing. ... Venstre[1] (IPA: , in Danish literally: Left), full name: Venstre, Danmarks Liberale Parti (Venstre, Liberal Party of Denmark) is the largest political party in Denmark, founded with a basis on free market Liberalism, now a right-of-centre party. ... The Conservative Peoples Party (Danish Det Konservative Folkeparti) is a Danish political party. ...

Its chairwoman is Pia Kjærsgaard. In the European Parliament its single MEP, Mogens Camre, sits as a member of the Union for a Europe of Nations grouping. Pia Kjærsgaard Pia Merete Kjærsgaard (born February 23, 1947 in Copenhagen) is a Danish politician. ... The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary body of the European Union. ... Image:Mogemre (EP, 6th term). ... The Union for a Europe of Nations is a nationalist and (mostly) euro-sceptic party grouping with seats in the European Parliament. ...

History

The party was founded on October 6, 1995, after Pia Kjærsgaard, Kristian Thulesen Dahl, Poul Nødgaard and Ole Donner left the Progress Party. The party made its electoral debut in the 1998 Danish parliamentary election winning 13 seats. Later, in the 2001 election, they won 22 seats. They became the third largest party in the parliament and supported the Conservative-Liberal coalition government, headed by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in exchange for the implementation of some of their key demands such as strict policies on immigration. The party won 24 seats in the 2005 election. Country name: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Faroe Islands local long form: none local short form: Føroyar Data code: FO Dependency status: part of the Kingdom of Denmark; self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark since 1948 Government type: Constitional Monarchy Capital: Tórshavn Administrative divisions: 36... Country name: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Greenland local long form: none local short form: Kalaallit Nunaat (meaning Land of the Greenlanders in Kalaallisut, the Greenlandic Inuit language) Data code: GL Dependency status: part of the Kingdom of Denmark; self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark since 1979... The European Union or EU is a supranational and international organization of 27 member states. ... Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pia Kjærsgaard Pia Merete Kjærsgaard (born February 23, 1947 in Copenhagen) is a Danish politician. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Progress Party (Fremskridtspartiet) is a Danish political party, formed in 1973. ... The Danish Parliamentary Election of 1998 was held on 11 March 1998. ... The Danish Parliamentary Election of 2001 held on November 20, 2001 saw a dramatic change in the political composition of the Danish parliament or Folketing. ... The Folketing, or Folketinget, is the name of the national parliament of Denmark. ... Anders Fogh Rasmussen , also: (born January 26, 1953) is the current Prime Minister of Denmark (in Danish Statsminister, meaning State Minister). ... Legislative elections were held in Denmark on February 8, 2005. ...

In 2006, the party's popularity rose dramatically in opinion polls following the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, at the expense of Social Democrats. This effect largely waned with the falling media attention to the cartoons controversy [1]. Opinion polls are surveys of opinion using sampling. ... The controversial cartoons of Muhammad, as they were first published in Jyllands-Posten in September 2005. ... The Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne), is a Danish political party. ...

Policies

The party's policies include:

• A tighten-up on immigration, especially on non-self-supporting immigrants
• Demand that the government continue support for the State Church (The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark)
• To improve conditions for the elderly
• To oppose a reduction of Denmark's sovereignty by the EU
• To maintain the monarchy, and the current Danish constitution
• Stricter punishments on rape, violence and reckless driving
• To oppose a multiethnic Danish society
• Grants for specific research into terrorism, islamism and cold-war history

Cooperation with the Conservative-Liberal coalition government resulted in the implementation of some of their key demands, such as strong anti-immigration policies resulting in what has been described as Europe's strictest immigration laws.^{[citation needed]} The new government enacted rules that prevented Danish citizens and others from bringing a foreign spouse into the country unless both partners were aged 24 or over, passed a solvency test showing the Dane had not claimed social security for 12 months and could lodge a bond of 55,241 kroner (about 9300 USD). [2] One declared aim of this was to fight arranged marriages. These new rules had the effect that while about 8,151 family reunification permits were granted in 2002, the number had fallen to 3,525 by 2005.[3] Some social benefits for refugees were also cut by 30-40% during their first seven years in the country, ordinary unemployment benefit being replaced by "start-up aid" for these groups. Whereas the government coalition's declared aim with this was to improve integration by inciting people to work, immigration spokesman Søren Krarup of the Danish People's Party has expressed his content in that the start-up aid has decreased the number of economical refugees greatly, showing them that "one does not find gold in the streets in Denmark".^[1] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Old age consists of ages nearing the average lifespan of human beings, and thus the end of the human life cycle. ... Sovereignty is the exclusive right to exercise supreme political (e. ... Forms of government Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A monarchy, from the Greek μονος, one, and αρχειν, to rule, is a form of government that has a monarch as head of state(KING)In most monarchies the monarch usually reigns as head of state for life; this is... The Constitutional Act of the Kingdom of Denmark (Danish: Danmarks Riges Grundlov) was introduced on June 5, 1849 and effectively put an end to the absolute monarchy which had been introduced in 1660. ... Terrorist redirects here. ... Political Ideologies Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      This article is about political Islamism. ... For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ... An arranged marriage is a marriage where the marital partners are chosen by others based on considerations other than the pre-existing mutual attraction of the partners. ... Family reunification is a recognized reason for immigration in many countries. ...

The changes to Denmark's immigration laws drew some criticism from the former social democratic government of Sweden, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Council of Europe's human rights commissioner. In a response to the criticism from the Swedish government Pia Kjaersgaard said: "If they want to turn Stockholm, Gothenburg or Malmö into a Scandinavian Beirut, with clan wars, honour killings and gang rapes, let them do it. We can always put a barrier on the Øresund Bridge." [4] The Swedish Social Democratic Party, officially the Social Democratic Workers Party (Swedish: ), contests elections as Workers Party - Social Democrats (Arbetarepartiet-Socialdemokraterna), commonly referred to just as the Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterna); is a political party in Sweden. ... Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (established December 14, 1950) protects and supports refugees at the request of a government or the United Nations and assists in their return or resettlement. ... European flag of the Council of Europe which is also adopted by the European Union. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...   (IPA: ; UN/LOCODE: SE STO) is the capital of Sweden, and consequently the site of its Government and Parliament as well as the residence of the Swedish head of state, King Carl XVI Gustaf. ... Location of Gothenburg in northern Europe Coordinates: Country Sweden County Västra Götaland County Province Västergötland Charter 1621  - Mayor Göran Johansson Area    - City 450 km²  (174 sq mi)  - Water 14. ... Motto: FrÃ¥n arbetarstad till kunskapsstad (eng: From industrial city to knowledge city) Location of Malmö in northern Europe Coordinates: Country Sweden Municipality Malmö Municipality County SkÃ¥ne Province Scania Charter 13th Century  - Mayor Illmar Reepalu Area    - City 335. ... For other uses, see Beirut (disambiguation). ... The Oresund Bridge The Oresund Bridge (joint Danish/Swedish hybrid name: Øresundsbron) is a combined two-track rail and four-lane road bridge across the Oresund strait. ...

The DPP officially supported the coalition government in deploying Danish military forces to Iraq.

In March 2007, representatives from the DPP (such as Peter Skaarup) publically proposed that forced medical castration should be done of sexual offenders. But under current Danish law, forced castration cannot be carried out on sane individuals [5] .

Controversy

The party has been part of controversy, especially because of their critical position towards immigration and Muslims [6][7][8] , who compose approximately 6% of the total Danish population. Like other members of the party, the party leader Pia Kjærsgaard, has been accused of racism several times.[9] In 2003, Pia Kjærsgaard lost a libel suit against a Communist opponent, Karen Sunds, who had characterized her as having "racist views".[10] Two lower courts ruled in favour of Kjærsgaard, but the Supreme Court acquitted Sunds of libel. The court based its decision on a deposition of the Danish Language Board, stating that the word "racist" now has a wider meaning than just racism, including anything deemed "discriminating" or"xenophobic". this verdict leaned on a former ruling of the European Court of Human Rights.^[2] There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: مسلمان, Turkish: Müslüman, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ... Manifestations Slavery · Racial profiling · Lynching Hate speech · Hate crime · Hate groups Genocide · Holocaust · Pogrom Ethnocide · Ethnic cleansing · Race war Religious persecution · Gay bashing Pedophobia · Ephebiphobia Movements Discriminatory Aryanism · Neo-Nazism · Supremacism Kahanism Anti-discriminatory Abolitionism · Civil rights Gays/Transsexes/Intersexes rights Womens/Universal suffrage · Feminism Mens/Fathers rights... Look up xenophobia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

A party spokesman, Søren Krarup, has said that “Muslim immigration is a way for Muslims to conquer us, just as they have done 1,400 years past.” According to Le Monde of December 11, 2005, an imam requested the censure of a Danish People’s Party deputy who, speaking in Parliament, drew a comparison between Muslim women who wear headscarves and bikers who sport swastikas. (from UN report E/CN.4/2006/17) Le Monde is also the name of a song by the Thievery Corporation. ... December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The party is known to have a centralized style of leadership and a lower tolerance for dissenting opinions, as compared to other Danish parties. Parliamentary candidates need to be approved by the central board, and several times members have been excluded for raising public critique of the leading figures.[11] The official party line states these measures are necessary to avoid internal fights as those that led to the split-up of the Progress Party, a predecessor of the DPP. The Progress Party (Fremskridtspartiet) is a Danish political party, formed in 1973. ...

In August 2006 undercover journalists of the tabloid Ekstra Bladet contacted some local districts of the DPP, saying that they were members of the extreme-right network Dansk Front (a nationalist organization) and wanted to join the DPP. Half of the district chairmen turned the request down, whereas the other half said party membership was OK, provided any extreme-right views were kept privately. When the tabloid published the story, the latter nine district chairmen were immediately excluded from the party.^[3].

The popularity of DPP

The DPP have been met with controversy from the other parties and from the press ever since the party was founded. However, starting with a modest number of votes, the party has grown at every single election since then. While the immigration policy is of course of importance to the party, there are other issues that add to the popularity of the party:

• Ideological Novelty: The DPP combines support of the welfare state, and particularly benefits for pensioners, with strongly conservative policies on immigration and law and order. As such it is distinctive from the mainstream parties and offers policies which appeal across the traditional right-left dividing line. Polls have shown that a great deal of the party's voters are former Social Democrats, concerned with the decline of the welfare state. An analysis by the trade union SiD after the 2001 election stated that among unskilled workers aged under 40, 30% voted for DPP and only 25% for the Social Democrats. ^[4]

• Euroscepticism: In Denmark, only two parties have been against all new EU treaties throughout their existence. Those parties are DPP and the left-wing Enhedslisten. Whereas most established politicians favour a more dominant EU, the public opinion is broadly sceptical and in favour of the national state keeping its powers. Referendums brought the rejection of the Maastricht treaty and the Euro. The DPP has managed to harness this scepticism in a more popular way than the left-wingers.

• Outspokenness: Pia Kjærsgaard, a former domestic nurse, is distinctive from the traditional political class of economists and academics and appeals to the "common man". Combined with the clear stance in the immigration issue and the rejection of political correctness, this has given her strong support among workers and lower middle class voters who do not support elitist politicians.

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Quotes

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• "The Islamic political-religious movement deals with world supremacy, as did other fanatic political ideologies in history. This world supremacy they are not able to achieve by military means, but try to achieve by flooding the world with people. All western countries are infiltrated by the Muslims - and some of them speak to us nicely, while they wait to be many enough to have us removed - like in the Sudan, Indonesia, Nigeria and in the Balkans." (Mogens Camre, Danish People's Party's annual meeting (September 16, 2001). ^[5]Note: the written copy of Camre's speech, as handed out to the press, has been claimed to state "kill us" in place of "have us removed".'^{[citation needed]})

• "It has been mentioned that September 11 became the beginning of a fight between civilizations. I don't agree about this, because a fight between civilisations would imply that there were two civilisations, and that is not the case. There is only one civilization, and that is ours. Our opponents can't plead to belong to a civilisation, because a civilised world would never be able to carry out an attack which contains so much hatred, so much savagery, so much abomination. With this, I regard September 11 as an attack on civilisation itself. On the civilisation which decent people have built up during decades and centuries, and which is based on uprightness and freedom. The others want to implement ferocity, the primitive, the barbaric, the medieval." ^[6] (Pia Kjærsgaard, during the opening debate of the Danish Folketing (October 4, 2001).)

• "We know the problem lies in those Muslim groups that come from the Middle East, and that other immigrant groups are harmless. So if Denmark shall not lock itself in totally, we have to distinguish between ethnic and religious groups. In fact I mean simply Muslims from all countries and not just in the Middle East."^[7] (MP and immigration spokesman Jesper Langballe, DR news, (December 4, 2005).)

• "Criticism of Islam as such and Muslims in general are not the political business of DPP. But direct, purposeful, unambiguous critique of and dissociation from Islamism and Islamists are both welcome and necessary."MPs.^[8] (Internal email to MPs from the party's press secretary Søren Espersen.)

• "The Social Security Act is passé, because it was tailored to a Danish family tradition and work moral and not to Muslims for whom it is fair to be provided for by others, while the wife gives birth to a lot of children. The child benefit grant is being taken advantage of, as an immigrant achieves a record income due to a small dozen of children. New punishment limits must be introduced for gang rapes, because the problem only arrived with the vandalism of the many anti-social second generation immigrants." ^[9] (Pia Kjærsgaard's newsletter (February 25, 2002))

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Results

The Danish Parliamentary Election of 1998 was held on 11 March 1998. ... The Danish Parliamentary Election of 2001 held on November 20, 2001 saw a dramatic change in the political composition of the Danish parliament or Folketing. ... Legislative elections were held in Denmark on February 8, 2005. ...

See also

• Politics of Denmark

The Folketing in session. ...

References

1. ^ Dagbladet Information, 8 December 2006
2. ^ http://www.ittext.dk/sunds.html
3. ^ http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Politik/2006/08/21/112708.htm
4. ^ Dansk Folkeblad, vol. 4, 2002.
5. ^ http://www.ole-krarup.dk/pages/1.php?nr=39
6. ^ http://ft.dk/?/samling/20061/MENU/00000002.htm
7. ^ http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Politik/2005/12/04/131947.htm
8. ^ http://www.humanisme.dk/artikler/kronik067.php
9. ^ http://www.danskfolkeparti.dk/sw/frontend/detail.asp?parent=19106&typeid=13&id=169&menu_parent=&layout=0

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External links

• (Danish) Dansk Folkeparti - Official site
• (English) Dansk Folkeparti - Official site
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