Pernille Vermund

Ann Pernille Vermund Tvede (born 3 December 1975 in Copenhagen) is a Danish 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. She is currently a member of the Folketing, having been elected in the 2019 Danish general election.[1]

Pernille Vermund
MF
Leader of The New Right
Assumed office
19 October 2015
Member of the Folketing
Assumed office
5 June 2019
ConstituencySouth Jutland
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 to the Folketing in 2019.[8]

References
  1. "Altinget - Alt om politik: Altinget.dk".
  2. "Føljetons Vermund-byggeri skal udfordre naturlovene". Føljeton (in Danish). 19 November 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  3. ""Det gør ondt": Vermund opgiver sit arkitektfirma". Finans. JP/Politikens Hus. Archived from the original on 19 October 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  4. "Vermund Gere Arkitekter MAA".
  5. "Nye Borgerliges formand er blevet gift med rigmand". Politiken (in Danish). 11 May 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  6. "Pernille Vermund bliver konservativ folketingskandidat". nsnet.dk. Lokalavisen Nordsjælland. 5 February 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  7. Karker, Andreas (20 October 2015). "Nyt parti udfordrer LA og DF: Vi er de RIGTIGE konservative". www.bt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  8. "Pernille Vermund (NB)". Ft.dk. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
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