Former member of parliament makes new attempt with green conservative party

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Former MP makes new attempt at green conservative party

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New party aims to unite conservative freedom and responsible economics with green transition.

Christian H. Hansen was a member of parliament for the Danish People's Party from 1998 to 2010. (Photo: © Jens Nørgaard Larsen, Ritzau Scanpix)

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Freja Nordenhof Engkilde ( [email protected] ) 10 minutes ago

Danish politics needs a greener conservative party with a focus on the climate.

That is the view of former and long-time member of parliament Christian H. Hansen.

Together with four other initiators, he has therefore founded the party Grønne Borgerlige (Green Conservatives).

Christian H. Hansen says that several conservative voters at the last election expressed that they felt politically homeless because they could not see themselves in the conservative parties in parliament.

- There are very many who are actually conservative voters, but who do not think that the conservative parties have taken responsibility for, for example, the green transition, he says.

The party was officially launched at an event at Hotel Kirstine in Næstved yesterday.

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Not the first time

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Christian H. Hansen was a member of parliament for the Danish People's Party from 1998 to 2010, but left the party partly due to disagreement on climate policy.

He subsequently founded the Environment Party Focus, which however never entered parliament.

Now he is trying again with Grønne Borgerlige, which he believes fills a gap in Danish politics.

- Even though we are a conservative party, we do not think that tax cuts always come first, unlike many other conservative parties, says Christian H. Hansen.

The party's key issues include better animal welfare, more presence in healthcare and elderly care, a strengthened psychiatric system, and more life and local food production in rural areas.

Grønne Borgerlige has so far collected 11 voter declarations.

It requires 20,387 voter declarations to be eligible to run for parliament.

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