Progress Party (Denmark)
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The Progress Party (Fremskridtspartiet) is a Danish political party, formed in 1973. Its founder, the former lawyer Mogens Glistrup, gained huge popularity in Denmark after he appeared on Danish television, showing that he paid 0 percent in income tax. The party was placed on the far right of the political spectrum, as it supported economic liberalism, believed in tax cuts, and also vowed to cut government spending. 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 coorporate with it.
The party gradually lost most of the support it had among the population, and in 1993, a number of party members rebelled, most notably Pia Kjærsgaard, the leader at that time of the Progress Party, and formed the now much more popular 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
External links
- Fremskridtspartiet (http://fremskridtspartiet.dk)da:Fremskridtspartiet