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19-1231: Progress Party or Party of Progress may refer to: Active parties [ edit ] Progress Party (Denmark) Progress Party of Equatorial Guinea Gabonese Progress Party Progress Party (Grenada) Progress Party (Iraq) Progress Party (Jersey) Progress Party (Norway) Progress Party (Russia) Alsatian Progress Party Saskatchewan Progress Party Party of Progress (Germany) Party of Progressive Conservatives (Tunisia) Party of Progress and Socialism (Morocco) Progress Party (Jordan) Former parties [ edit ] Australian Capital Territory Progress and Welfare Council Progress Party (Australia) Christian People's Party (Faroe Islands) German Progress Party Progress Party (Ghana) Progress Party (Iran) Progress Party (Norway, 1957) Progress Party (Sweden) Progress Party (Thailand, 1983) See also [ edit ] Progressive Party (disambiguation) Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Progressive Democratic Party (disambiguation) Progressive Green Party (disambiguation) Progress (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

38-596: A part of the ruling coalition because the other parties refused to cooperate with it. The party also became well-known for Gilstrup's unique sense of humour such as the proposal for the entire Ministry of Defence to be replaced by an answering machine with the recorded message "We surrender" in Russian. The Progress Party's seats in parliament fell to 20 in 1979, partly due to internal splits between "pragmatists" ( slappere ) who wanted to pursue cooperation with mainstream parties; and "fundamentalists" ( strammere ) who wanted

57-460: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Progress Party (Denmark) The party's founder, the former lawyer Mogens Glistrup , gained widespread popularity as well as notoriety in the country after he appeared on Danish television, stating that he paid 0% in income tax . The party was placed on the right of the political spectrum as it believed in radical tax cuts (including removing

76-464: The 2005 Danish parliamentary election nor in the 2007 Danish parliamentary election . However, it did 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 municipality of Morsø serving as the last elected representative of the party until the end of 2009. In

95-610: The 2019 Danish general election , the Progress Party supported The New Right . The party's political issues were: Glistrup added the fourth point in the 1980s. By 2010, its entire political program consisted of the following points, with the headline "Stop the immigration": Mogens Glistrup Mogens Glistrup (28 May 1926 in Rønne – 1 July 2008 in Virum ) was a Danish politician, lawyer and tax protester. He founded

114-609: The Progress Party , and was a member of the Folketing (1973–1983 and 1987–1990). He had his parliamentary immunity revoked a total of six times due to criminal convictions for tax fraud and racism . From 1956 to 1963 Glistrup was an associate professor in tax law at the University of Copenhagen , and after leaving the university he became the owner of one of Denmark's leading law firms. On national television in 1971 on

133-405: The Progress Party, and in the landslide election of 1973 the party gained 28 seats of 179, making it the second-largest in parliament. Glistrup described the income tax as a remnant of the stagnant agrarian society of the past, and wanted the income tax removed over a period of seven years by gradually increasing the tax threshold. He had a unique sense of humour, the most famous example of which

152-498: The income tax altogether) and vowed to cut government spending . In the late 1970s, its agenda was "the gradual abolition of income tax, the disbandment of most of the civil service, the abolition of the diplomatic service and the scrapping of 90% of all legislation". From the 1980s, the party also adopted anti-immigration as a key issue. The party entered the Danish parliament after the 1973 landslide election and immediately became

171-533: The last day for sending in tax returns, he praised tax fraudsters as the "freedom fighters of our time," and he displayed his own tax card with a tax rate of zero. His television appearance triggered mass outrage, and Finance Minister Poul Møller made a complaint to Danmarks Radio , stating that they should rather have presented factual information on filling out tax returns. The government proceeded to have police and tax authorities begin an investigation into Glistrup's finances. On 22 August 1972, Glistrup founded

190-478: The media had become so extreme that they felt forced to leave the party (comments included "either one is a racist or else one is a traitor" and demanding all "Mohammedans" in Denmark to be interned in camps and expelled from the country). Glistrup led the party for the 2001 Danish parliamentary election , but it had lost almost all its support and received less than one percent of the vote. The party did not run in

209-482: The national executive of the party in 1991 and went on to found his own party, called Prosperity Party ( Trivselspartiet ). The Progress Party won twelve seats in the 1990 Danish parliamentary election . Internal disputes were still far from resolved, and eventually led the party to be split when the Danish People's Party (DF) was founded by Kjærsgaard and the pragmatists in 1995. While liberals remained in

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228-403: The only fiction involved was the "fiction theory" of the prosecuting authority. After serving the sentence, Glistrup was reelected to parliament in 1987, but he did not manage to regain his political influence on the party from Pia Kjærsgaard , and he was expelled from the party in 1991. After this period, he made many racist and inflammatory remarks, such as "either one is a racist or else one

247-442: The party to stand alone. The party started to turn its attention on immigration by 1979, although immigration did not become important before the late 1980s. Having added a " Mohammedan -free Denmark" as one of its declared goals in 1980, Glistrup increasingly made comments about Muslims and used the slogan to "Make Denmark a Muslim Free Zone". In 1983, Glistrup was sentenced to three years in prison for tax fraud. While Glistrup

266-469: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Progress Party . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Progress_Party&oldid=1252072840 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Political party disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

285-472: The second largest party in Denmark. After this the party gradually decreased in voter support, and when some of its leading members broke out and established the Danish People's Party in 1995, the party soon lost its representation in parliament. It last won members of the Folketing in 1998, and has since become a minor party. In the 2019 general election , it supported the New Right . The Progress Party

304-464: The tax-focused Progress Party, the new DF included those who were concerned with immigration as their main issue. When the party's new leader Kirsten Jacobsen decided to leave politics in 1999, Mogens Glistrup was allowed back in the party again in lack of any leading figures. Because of this, the Progress Party's remaining four member in parliament left and founded Freedom 2000 . Despite their own positions against immigration, Glistrup's comments in

323-486: Was founded by tax lawyer Mogens Glistrup in 1972 as a tax protest . The party's initial issues were less bureaucracy, abolition of the income tax and simpler law paragraphs. The party entered the Danish Parliament after the "electoral earthquake" of the 1973 Danish parliamentary election . It won 15.9% of the vote and 28 seats, making it the second-largest party in parliament. However, it did not form

342-755: Was his suggestion to replace the Ministry of Defence with an answering machine saying "We Surrender" in Russian . The investigation of Glistrup's economic conditions dragged on but resulted in 1983 in Glistrup being sentenced by the supreme court to three years in prison and a fine of DKK 1,000,000 and the parliament finding him unfit to be a member. The case against him was complicated and involved an extensive web of companies that only transferred money to each other. The prosecuting authority described this web of companies as fiction, to which Glistrup responded that

361-415: Was in prison, the pragmatists led by Pia Kjærsgaard took over the leadership of the party. Returning to the party after his release in 1987, Glistrup was no longer in control of it and internal strife broke out again. Glistrup refused to vote in favour of a proposition which had been agreed with the government in 1988 and was stripped of his position as a representative for the party. He was expelled from

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