Pernille Vermund

Ann Pernille Vermund Tvede (born 3 December 1975[1] in Copenhagen), commonly known as Pernille Vermund, is a Danish architect and politician known for co-founding and leading the national-conservative political party The New Right. She was previously affiliated with the Conservative People's Party.

Ann Pernille Vermund Tvede

Leader of The New Right
Assumed office
2015
Member of the Folketing
Assumed office
2019
Personal details
Born
Ann Pernille Vermund Tvede

(1975-12-03) 3 December 1975
Copenhagen, Denmark
Political partyThe New Right
Conservative People's Party (until 2015)
Alma materRoyal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

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. Vermund is divorced from her first husband and is the mother of three boys. In 2019, she married Danish author and businessman Lars Tvede.[2][3][4][5]

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.[6] In October 2015, she co-founded the Nye Borgerlige (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. Politically, she defines herself as a conservative.[7]

Vermund was elected into the Folketing in 2019.[8]

Political offices
Preceded by
None
Leader of The New Right
2015—
Succeeded by
Incumbent

References

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