A new Danish far-right party that wants Islam banned and hundreds of thousands o...
Denmark's Rasmus Paludan, from the far-right Stram Kurs party, reacts in Lergravsparken, in Copenhagen, Denmark, April 24, 2019. Picture taken April 24, 2019. Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via Reuters
The party ‘Stram Kurs’, which means Hard Line, was founded in 2017 by lawyer Rasmus Paludan who first came to public attention by posting anti-Islam YouTube videos. His stunts have included publicly burning the Koran, sometimes wrapped in bacon, in what he calls a tribute to free speech. Two other polls released over the past week have also shown the new party entering parliament, giving it between 2.7 percent and 3.9 percent of the vote.
Hard Line gathered the roughly 20,000 voter signatures needed to contest the parliamentary election, which must be held by June 17 at the latest.
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