Sikandar Siddique, Uffe Elbæk, Susanne Zimmer, and Niko Grünfeld left The Alternative following allegations that new leader
Josephine Fock had harassed members of the party. Three weeks after her election on 1 February,
Dagbladet Information published the allegations from anonymous sources. Fock narrowly survived a motion of no confidence by The Alternative's executive board following the allegations in March 2020, after which Elbæk was handed an ultimatum by his constituency's local party branch to back Fock or have his support withdrawn. Elbæk chose to leave the party on 7 March, followed by Siddique, Zimmer and
Rasmus Nordqvist; Grünfeld had already left the party on 28 February. Nordqvist subsequently joined the
Socialist People's Party, while Fock would resign as leader of The Alternative on 14 November. Ahead of the
2022 Danish general election, The Alternative's new leader
Franciska Rosenkilde offered the Independent Greens and
Vegan Party a chance to form a united list to increase the chances of
green representation in the Folketing, as all three parties were polling below the threshold. Siddique dismissed the plan. Elbæk later called for the Independent Greens and Alternative to merge, and eventually rejoined the old party, reducing the number of sitting FG MPs to two. In the election, the Independent Greens received 0.9% of the vote, falling below the 2% threshold to retain their seats in the Folketing. They were the second-smallest registered party in terms of vote share, ahead of only the
Christian Democrats. The party has taken a strongly
pro-Palestinian and
anti-Zionist stance, and advocates for a
one-state solution to
the Israel-Palestine conflict. In the municipal elections on
18 November 2025, the Free Greens received 1.9 percent of the vote and thus one seat on the
Copenhagen City Council. The mandate went to Sikandar Siddique, with Asham Agha Nadeem as first deputy. The party did not participate in the
2026 general election. == Election results ==