Led by Pia Kjaersgaard 12.0% of the 2001 general election votes New populist anti-immigration and anti-EU party formed after break with the Progress Party. Focuses on the threat Muslims pose to a Christian country and has campaigned for the repatriation of immigrants and non-white refugees. Since the September 11 attacks in the US, the DPP has broadened its attack on Islam which it compares to a terror movement. In the previous general election in 1998, the DPP scored 7.4 per cent of the vote. But in the 2001 elections, it gained 12 per cent of the vote to emerge as the third largest party in the country with 22 seats in the Danish parliament. The DPP managed, despite Denmark having two MEPs fewer, to hold on to its single seat in the June 2004 European parliamentary election. Although the centre-Right coalition that now governs Denmark, has promised to exclude the DPP from government, the DPP's anti-immigration themes have been taken up by the ruling Liberal group which has promised tighter rules to limit immigrants from bringing their families to Denmark, restrictions on social benefits and the creation of a controversial new immigration ministry.