Vidar Kleppe

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Vidar Kleppe (born September 16, 1963 in Bergen) is a Norwegian politician. He is a former member of the Progress Party and current leader of the Democrats.

Kleppe used to be a prominent Progress Party politician, being a member of their national board from 1989 to 1999. He was a member of the Norwegian parliament (Stortinget) for two periods (1989-1993 and 1997-2001). In 2001, Kleppe and others were excluded from the Progress Party because of their national socialist leanings, and many of them went on to form the Democrats. He became leader for the new party, and currently he sits as a member of Vest-Agder county parliament. He has twice (2001 and 2005) campaigned unsuccessfully for a place in Stortinget.

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