Editing June Movement (section)

==History==
The June Movement was founded at a conference at [[Christiansborg]] on 23 August 1992.<ref>{{cite book|title=Western Europe 2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M9QYndAPmuQC&pg=PA132|access-date=8 May 2016|date=30 November 2002|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-85743-152-0|page=132}}</ref> Its immediate predecessors were [[Danmark 92]] and a group of members of [[People's Movement against the EU]]. The three original spokespersons were [[Drude Dahlerup]] and [[Niels I. Meyer]] (originally from the initiative Danmark 92) and [[Jens-Peter Bonde]] (originally from the [[People's Movement against the EU]]).

===MEPs split from the People's Movement===
At the end of 1992, three of the four representatives of the People's Movement in the European Parliament (Jens-Peter Bonde, [[Birgit Bjørnvig]] og [[Ulla Sandbæk]]) decided to represent the June Movement for the rest of the election term. Besides members of Danmark 92 and the People's Movement, the June Movement also attracted a significant number of members who previously had not been politically active and among established parties across the spectrum. The movement attracted activists from the now-defunct youth organization [[Unge Mod Unionen]], including former candidates for the European Parliament and board members.

The movement recommended a 'no' vote at the EU referendums in 1993, 1998 and 2000.

===1999–2008 representation===
Between 1999 and 2004, they held three of the sixteen Danish seats in the European Parliament. By the 2004 elections only one MEP, [[Jens-Peter Bonde]], was re-elected.

The movement recommended rejecting the [[European constitution]] as it considered it to be undemocratic and as introducing too much central control. However, the European constitution was passed in the Danish Parliament without a referendum.

In May 2008, [[Jens-Peter Bonde]] resigned from the European Parliament, succeeded by [[Hanne Dahl]]. Bonde later stopped being a leading member of the June Movement, instead working as an adviser for the cross-European [[Libertas Party Limited|Libertas Party]].

===2009 electoral defeat and dissolution===
On 7 June 2009, the June Movement was convincingly defeated in the Danish elections for the European Parliament, and the movement lost its seat. To run again, the movement needed to collect signatures from 80,000 voters, which it considered an impossible task. On the evening of the election, movement leader [[Keld Albrecthsen]] announced that the movement would disband, which it did on 5 September 2009.<ref name=disband />