Progress Party (Denmark)

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Progress Party Fremskridtspartiet



Leader	Ove Jensen

Founded	1972
Headquarters	Stationsmestervej 11 9200 Aalborg SV

Ideology	Nationalism, Liberalism
International affiliation	None

Website http://www.fremskridtspartiet.dk/

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The Progress Party (Danish: Fremskridtspartiet) is a Danish political party, formed in 1972. Its founder, the former lawyer Mogens Glistrup, gained huge popularity in Denmark after he appeared on Danish television, showing that he paid 0 % in income tax. The party was placed on the far right of the political spectrum, as it supported political and economic liberalism, believed in radical tax cuts (including removing the income tax altogether), and also vowed to cut government spending. An example is the suggestion to replace the entire department of defence with an answering machine with the recorded message "we surrender" in Russian. The party entered the Danish parliament, the Folketing, the same year in the 1973 Danish parliamentary election with 28 out of 179 seats, making it the second-largest party of the parliament, though it did not form a part of the ruling coalition because the others parties refused to cooperate with it. During the 1980s the party increased its influence, however it ended abruptly due to internal strife.

The party gradually lost most of the support it had among the population, and in 1995, a number of party members rebelled (after a long internal fight for power), most notably Pia Kjærsgaard, the leader at that time of the Progress Party, and formed the Danish People's Party.

By the time of the 2001 parliamentary election, the Progress Party had lost almost all of its support and received less than one percent of the vote. The party did not run in the 2005 parliamentary election, nor in the 2007 parliamentary election. It did however run for the local and regional elections in November 2005. The party generally received less than one percent of the votes (though with several local exceptions), and got one member elected in the county of Morsø.

1 Political leaders
2 Organisatorial leaders
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Political leaders

1971-1985: Mogens Glistrup
1985-1995: Pia Kjærsgaard
1995-1999: Kirsten Jacobsen
1999-2001: Aage Brusgaard
2001-2003: Aase Heskjær
2003-2006: Jørn Herkild
2006-2007: Henrik Søndergård
2007-: Ove Jensen

[edit] Organisatorial leaders

Ulrik Poulsen, 1974
Palle Tillisch, 1975-1976
A. Roland Petersen, 1976-1979
V.A. Jacobsen, 1980-1984
Poul Sustmann Hansen, 1984
Ove Jensen, 1984
Helge Dohrmann, 1984-1985
Annette Just, 1985-1986
Johannes Sørensen, 1987-1993
Poul Lindholm Nielsen, 1994
Johannes Sørensen, 1995-1999
Per Larsen, 1999
Aage Brusgaard, 1999-2001
Aase Heskjær, 2001-2003
Jørn Herkild, 2003-2006
Henrik Søndergård, 2006-2007
Ove Jensen, 2007-

[edit] References

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