Denmark’s People’s Party made headlines earlier this summer for its successful demand that the country implement some border controls, which were banned under the Schengen Agreement of the 1990s.
The People’s Party makes up 13.9 percent of the Danish parliament. Founded in 1998, it has steadily gained followers and has shifted many mainstream parties to the right as they attempt to win back voters who turned to the right-wing party, according to The New York Times.
The party’s platform calls Christianity an “integral part” of Danish life and says that “Denmark is not an immigrant-country and never has been. Thus we will not accept transformation to a multiethnic society.”
