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Conservative People's Party
Det Konservative Folkeparti
LeaderBendt Bendtsen
Founded1915
HeadquartersNyhavn 4
1051 København K
Official ideology/
political position		Liberal conservatism
Conservative liberalism Conservatism
Right wing
International affiliationInternational Democrat Union
European Parliament GroupEuropean People's Party-European Democrats
Official color(s)Green
Websitewww.konservative.dk


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, 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 (Left). 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.

The party is a member of the European People's Party (EPP). In the 2004 election for the European Parliament, Gitte Seeberg won a seat for the party and was a member of the EPP-ED group, but left the Conservatives on 7 May 2007 to become one of the founders of the Denmark.

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.

List of leaders

Political leaders

John Christmas Møller1928-1947
Ole Bjørn Kraft1947-1955
Aksel Møller1955-1958
Poul Sørensen1958-1969
Poul Møller1969-1971
Erik Ninn-Hansen1971-1974
Poul Schlüter1974-1993
Henning Dyremose1993
Hans Engell1993-1997
Per Stig Møller1997-1998
Pia Christmas-Møller1998-1999
Bendt Bendtsen1999-

Party chairmen

Emil Piper1916-28
Charles Tvede1928-32
John Christmas Møller1932-39
Vilhelm Fibiger1939-48
Halfdan Hendriksen1948-57
Einar Foss1957-65
Knud Thestrup1965-72
Erik Haunstrup Clemmensen1972-74
Poul Schlüter1974-77
Ib Stetter1977-81
Poul Schlüter1981-93
Torben Rechendorff1993-95
Hans Engell1995-97
Per Stig Møller1997-98
Poul Andreassen1998-00
Bendt Bendtsen2000-

Youth and student wings

Famous members

External links

(Danish) Official website

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Political parties in Denmark
Represented in the Folketing:Venstre (50)  • Social Democrats (47) • Danish People's Party (23)  • Conservative People's Party (18)  • Danish Social Liberal Party (16)  • Socialist People's Party (11)  • Red-Green Alliance (6)  • New Alliance (3)  • Independent (1)  • 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) • New Alliance (2)  • Danish People's Party (1) • Socialist People's Party (1)  • June Movement (1)  • People's Movement against the EU (1)
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Next Danish parliamentary election
Danish parties
Running: Venstre • Social Democrats • Danish People's Party • Conservative People's Party • Danish Social Liberal Party • Socialist People's Party • Red-Green Alliance • Christian Democrats • New Alliance Declared intention: Liberalisterne • Freedom Party Likely to run: Centre Democrats • Minority Party • Progress Party		 Faroese parties
Running: People's Party • Republican Party Likely to run: Centre Party • Self-Government Party • Social Democratic Party • Union Party		 Greenlandic parties
Running: Forward • Inuit Community Likely to run: Democrats • Feeling of Community • Independents • Women's Party
Candidates for Prime Minister: Fogh Rasmussen • Thorning-Schmidt
Other notable candidates: Barfod • Bendtsen • Khader • Kjrsgaard • Kornbek • Svndal • Vestager
Opinion polls: By party • By coalition
Ministry of the Interior: Parties currently eligible to run in Danish parliamentary elections
Bendt Bendtsen (born March 25 1954 in Odense) has been the leader of the Danish Conservative People's Party since August 5 1999. He has been the Minister of Trade and Industry since 27 November 2001, in the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I and the Cabinet of Anders Fogh
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Liberal conservatism is a political philosophy which generally means combining elements of "conservatism" with elements of "liberalism". As these latter two terms have had different meanings over time and across countries, liberal conservatism also has a wide variety of
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Conservatism is a term used to describe political philosophies that favor tradition and gradual change, where tradition refers to religious, cultural, or nationally defined beliefs and customs.
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right-wing, the political right, and the right are terms used in the spectrum of Left-Right Politics, and much like the opposite appellation of Left-wing, it has a broad variety of definitions: the same name can, in politics, sometimes mean different things.
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The International Democrat Union (IDU) is an of classical liberal, conservative, nationalist, anti-Communist and some Christian democratic political parties.

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Danish}}} 
Official status
Official language of:  Denmark
 Greenland
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Nordic Council
Regulated by: Dansk Sprognævn ("Danish Language Committee")
Language codes
ISO 639-1: da
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(Royal motto: Guds hjælp, Folkets kærlighed, Danmarks styrke
"The Help of God, the Love of the People, the Strength of Denmark" )
Anthem
Der er et yndigt land  (national)
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Poul Holmskov Schlüter (IPA: [pʰʌʊ̯l hʌlmsɡ̊ʌʊ̥ slyd̥ɐ], April 3, 1929) is a Danish politician, who served as prime minister from 1982 to 1993.
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Young Conservatives
Konservativ Ungdom


Chairperson Rune Kristensen

Founded 1904
Headquarters Amagertorv 33, 4.
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Conservative Students
Konservative Studerende


Chairperson Katrine Hovaldt Larsen

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Headquarters Nyhavn 4
1051 København K

Mother party Conservative People's Party
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Venstre[1] (IPA: [ˈʋɛnsd̥(ʁ)ɐ], in Danish literally: Left), full name: Venstre, Danmarks Liberale Parti (Venstre, Liberal Party of Denmark
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Bendt Bendtsen (born March 25 1954 in Odense) has been the leader of the Danish Conservative People's Party since August 5 1999. He has been the Minister of Trade and Industry since 27 November 2001, in the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I and the Cabinet of Anders Fogh
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European People's Party
Europäische Volkspartei
Parti populaire européen
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President Wilfried Martens

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Gitte Seeberg (born on 25 June 1960 in Copenhagen) is a Danish politician and Member of the European Parliament with the New Alliance. [1] She sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and is a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and the
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