Lars Boje Mathiesen

Lars Boje Mathiesen (born 21 May 1975) is a Danish politician who, since March 2023, has been an independent member of the Danish Parliament, the Folketing. From February until March 2023, he succeeded Pernille Vermund as leader of the Nye Borgerlige (New Right) political party, for which he was elected a member of the Folketing at the 2019 general election and again at the 2022 general election. However, he was dismissed and expelled from the party only the following month after disputes over remuneration and campaign finances.

Lars Boje Mathiesen
Boje in 2020
Leader of Nye Borgerlige
In office
7 February 2023 – 9 March 2023
Preceded byPernille Vermund
Member of the Folketing
Assumed office
5 June 2019
Personal details
Born (1975-05-21) 21 May 1975
Skive, Denmark
Political partyIndependent
Nye Borgerlige (2016-2023)
Liberal Alliance (until 2016)

Background

Mathiesen was born on 21 May 1975 in Skive and is the son of musician Peter Boje Mathiesen and Inge Burmølle Mathiesen.[1][2] He grew up on a disused farm near Ribe, according to his own statement in a hippie family. He is a educated trained primary schoolteacher from Ribe Seminarium and Nørre Nissum Seminarium in 2000 to 2005 and worked as a primary schoolteacher at various schools from 2005 to 2019. As a teacher, he has taught social studies, English, Christianity and history.[3][4]

He studied management and psychology in the United States at Southeast State University of Missouri. Previously, he had his own hotel and café in Ribe.[5]

Political career

Liberal Alliance (2013–2016)

Mathiesen started in politics in 2013, where he was elected into Aarhus Municipality's municipal council, as a member of Liberal Alliance. He left the party in 2016 and, after a short unaffiliated period, joined Nye Borgerlige. He chose not to stand again in the next local election, but instead to seek a seat in the Folketing.[6]

Nye Borgerlige (2016–2023)
Lars Boje Mathiesen as second from the left with Nye Borgerlige's group in December 2022.

Lars Boje Mathiesen was elected a member of the Folketing at the 2019 general election on 5 June for East Jutland. In May 2021, he caused a social media backlash when he compared the right to free menstrual products to having "underpants in public toilets" in case someone soils themselves, a comparison that was described as "pure nonsense" by Charlotte Wilkens chief physician at the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Hvidovre Hospital.[7]

Leadership (February–March 2023)

On 10 January 2023, Pernille Vermund announced her intention to step down as leader, explaining her resignation with a desire to get her "life and family back".[8][9][10][11][12][13][14] At an extraordinary national executive (hovedbestyrelse) meeting on 17 January, it was decided that the new leader would be elected at an extraordinary annual convention held on 7 February as well as Boje announcing his candidature and the candidature proclamation deadline being set for 24 January.[15][16][17]

On 18 January, Seier announced his resignation as deputy leader, meaning a new one would also be appointed at the convention.[18] On 24 January, the deadline, Nye Borgerlige MP Mikkel Bjørn left the party and immediately joined the Danish People's Party due to internal dissension with Boje and a lack of belief in his abilities to lead.[19][20][21]

On 25 January 2023, it was announced that no other candidate than Boje had entered the race.[22][23] Consequently, he unanimously assumed office at the party's convention in Fredericia on 7 February 2023 with Henriette Ergemann among six aspiring candidates, winning the deputy leader election by 204 out of the 317 delegates' votes.[24][25][26] After 13 days, Ergemann resigned following controversy regarding false claims about COVID-19 vaccines and substandard statements concerning specific individuals.[27][28][29][30][31][32][33] Her departure followed a larger discussion about Boje moving the party line away from conservatism towards a more anarchist and non-pragmatic position with an appeal to conspiratorial and anti-establishment sentiments.[34][35][36][37][38][39][40] On March 6, Ergemann left the party.[41][42][43]

Expulsion

On 10 March, it was announced that the national executive of Nye Borgerlige had, the day prior, unanimously chosen to dismiss Boje as party leader and expel him from the party because of disputes over remuneration and campaign finances.[44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55] On the 10th, Vermund conveyed her willingness to once again take over as party leader,[56][57][58][59] retracting her former pledge not to run in the next general election.[60][61][62] As a side effect of Boje's expulsion, the party is set to lose a substantial part of its public funds, with effect after 12 months.[63][64][65][66] Boje continued in the Folketing as an independent.[67] The party is expected to be without a leader and deputy leader until its ordinary annual meeting in October 2023.[68][69] On 12 April, Boje hinted at the possibillity to found his own party.[70]

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