Conservative People's Party (Denmark)

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Det Konservative Folkeparti




Leader	Bendt Bendtsen

Founded	1915
Headquarters	Nyhavn 4 Copenhagen

Political Ideology	Conservatism
Political Position	Centre-right

International Affiliation	International Democrat Union
European Affiliation	European Democrat Union
European Parliament Group	EPP, within EPP-ED
Colours	Green

Youth wing	Young Conservatives
Student wing	Conservative Students

Website	www.konservative.dk

See also	Danish Politics Political parties Elections

The Conservative People's Party (Danish: Det Konservative Folkeparti), also known as Conservatives (Konservative) is a Danish political party. Until 1915 it was known as Højre (Right).

The party has participated in several coalition governments, but only one Prime Minister (statsminister in Danish), Poul Schlüter, has come from this party, serving from 1982 to 1993. The youth branch of the Conservative People's Party, albeit an independent organisation, is Conservative Youth, the oldest youth organisation in Denmark, founded in December 1904, and believed to be one of the oldest in the world^{[citation needed]}, preceding the Conservative People's Party with 10 years. The student branch is Conservative Students, likewise an independent organisation, which has branches on all Danish Universities.

Since 2001, the Conservative People's Party has been the junior partner in a coalition government lead by Venstre. The Conservative People's Party is currently led by Bendt Bendtsen, who serves as Minister of Trade and Industry as well as Deputy Prime Minister.

In the 2004 election for the European Parliament, Gitte Seeberg won a seat for the party and is a member of the EPP-ED group.

In the 2005 elections for the Folketing (Danish national parliament), the Conservative People's Party gained 18 seats, an increase of two, winning 10.3% of the vote. In that election, it came fourth, behind Venstre, the Social Democrats and the Danish People's Party.

1 List of leaders
- 1.1 Political leaders
- 1.2 Party chairmen
2 Youth and student wings
3 Famous members
4 External link

[edit] List of leaders

[edit] Political leaders

John Christmas Møller	1928-1947
Ole Bjørn Kraft	1947-1955
Aksel Møller	1955-1958
Poul Sørensen	1958-1969
Poul Møller	1969-1971
Erik Ninn-Hansen	1971-1974
Poul Schlüter	1974-1993
Henning Dyremose	1993
Hans Engell	1993-1997
Per Stig Møller	1997-1998
Pia Christmas-Møller	1998-1999
Bendt Bendtsen	1999-

[edit] Party chairmen

Emil Piper	1916-28
Charles Tvede	1928-32
John Christmas Møller	1932-39
Vilhelm Fibiger	1939-48
Halfdan Hendriksen	1948-57
Einar Foss	1957-65
Knud Thestrup	1965-72
Erik Haunstrup Clemmensen	1972-74
Poul Schlüter	1974-77
Ib Stetter	1977-81
Poul Schlüter	1981-93
Torben Rechendorff	1993-95
Hans Engell	1995-97
Per Stig Møller	1997-98
Poul Andreassen	1998-00
Bendt Bendtsen	2000-

[edit] Youth and student wings

Young Conservatives (Konservativ Ungdom)
Conservative Students (Konservative Studerende)

[edit] Famous members

John Christmas Møller - wartime resistance figure

[edit] External link

(Danish) Official website

Political Parties in Denmark
Represented in the Folketing:	Venstre (52) \| Social Democrats (47) \| Danish People's Party (24) \| Conservative People's Party (18) \| Danish Social Liberal Party (17) \| Socialist People's Party (11) \| Red-Green Alliance (6) \| Siumut (Greenland) (1) \| Inuit Ataqatigiit (Greenland) (1) \| Republican Party (Faroe Islands) (1) \| People's Party (Faroe Islands) (1)
Represented in the European Parliament:	Social Democrats (5) \| Venstre (3) \| Danish People's Party (1) \| Conservative People's Party (1) \| Danish Social Liberal Party (1) \| Socialist People's Party (1) \| June Movement (1) \| People's Movement against the EU (1)