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	Progress Party (Norway) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Progress party had run a campaign promising to unseat the Labour government of Jens Stoltenberg, and kept that promise by supporting the new minority government of Kjell Magne Bondevik, although the three parties in that coalition declined to govern together with the Progress party, saying that the political distance was too large.
		The Progress Party declares itself to be liberalistic, built on Norwegian and western traditions and cultural heritages, with basis in a Christian and humanist understanding of life.
		The Progress Party places highly in its program the right of the individual to decide about its own life and economy, and claims the individual is, together with the family and the right to own private property, the fundamental of society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Progress_Party_(Norway) (2400 words)

	Progress Party (Norway)
		The Progress Party is a right-wing political party of Norway.
		Because of inner tension, the 1993 election halved the party (6.3 percent and 10 representatives).
		As the party was founded just after the political upheaval that followed the 1972 EU referendum, the party was believed to be an ephmeral phenomenon, and the leader of the Conservative Party Kåre Willoch characterized it as a "may fly party" (Norwegian: døgnflueparti).
	www.askfactmaster.com /FrP (1277 words)

	Norway Turns Left. Or Is it Right?
		The Right Party, though it was the biggest party in the previous coalition, had not put its own leader, Erna Solberg, forward as a candidate for Prime Minister, which clearly placed it at a disadvantage in the competition with the other parties.
		The Christian-Democrat Party of the Europhile Bondevik lost to the Progress Party of Carl I. Hagen, an outspoken Eurosceptic.
		Norway is, indeed, the world’s most wealthy country, but unlike Iceland - the world’s second wealthiest country - the key to Norway’s wealth is oil and not the liberalisation of the economy.
	www.brusselsjournal.com /node/256/print (628 words)

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		The Progress Party's main objective is to achieve heavy reductions in direct and indirect taxes and interference by the state.
		VIEW OF SOCIETY The fundamental principle of the Progress Party's view of society is a belief in and respect for the individuality of each human being and the right to control one's own life and finances.
		The Progress Party therefore condemns any kind of totalitarian or authoritarian state and ideologies aiming at such a state and the Party is very critical of any transfer of power from citizens to the public authorities.
	www.e-grammes.gr /Progress_Party_manifesto.doc (1667 words)

	Stephen Roth Institute: Antisemitism And Racism
		The demands of the anti-immigrationist Progress Party for a stricter asylum policy have increased its popularity to 20 percent in opinion polls.
		In the 1999 municipal and regional elections the party obtained, nation-wide, 13.5 and 12.1 percent of the votes, respectively.
		It should be noted that while the Progress Party turned a blind eye to the statements of Hedstrøm and Kleppe, it did, however, eject from its ranks a lesser known member, Oddbjørn Jonstad, after he made blatantly racist statements to the press.
	www.tau.ac.il /Anti-Semitism/asw99-2000/norway.htm (1788 words)

	Norway: left parties and trade unions embrace far-right Progress Party
		Although Progress won 26 seats in the 165-seat parliament, the main winner in the elections was the Conservative Party, which recovered from its 1997 rout to become the biggest party.
		Party finance spokesman Siv Jensen refused to support the budget on the basis that more of Norway’s considerable oil wealth should be spent on social measures, while budgeted tax cuts of 7.5 billion krone ($838 million) should be greater.
		Progress is taking advantage of the deep hostility to the Labour Party and contempt for the political establishment, due to the attacks on social conditions by successive governments.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/jul2002/norw-j11.shtml (1066 words)

	Three's company (Norway - the official site in the United States)
		The Progress Party increased their representation in the Municipal Councils by gaining 290 seats in the recent elections, which left them with a total of 985 seats.
		The party lost three council seats in Oslo, and one of the party's front politicians in Oslo, Oddbjørn Jonstad, was removed from the party for his extremist opinions on immigration.
		The Progress Party had to ask controversial Members of Parliament Vidar Kleppe and Øystein Hedstrøm to call off rallies where immigration was to be a topic.
	www.norway.org /News/archive/1999/199905politics.htm (947 words)

	Norway's far-right Progress Party splits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Kleppe was suspended from party membership on March 7 and promptly announced his intention to oppose his expulsion on the basis of its undemocratic nature.
		Until the present crisis, the Progress Party had been expected to be a participant in post-election negotiations to form a new coalition government.
		The willingness of the press to dump Progress after years of encouragement indicates the nervousness in ruling circles over the escalating social tensions in Norwegian society, which would be enflamed by having the anti-welfare and anti-immigrant Progress Party in government.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/apr2001/nor-a25.shtml (1158 words)

	Norwaves Volume 5, Number 34, 1997
		With a number of parties claiming to be the true bearers of the social democratic tradition, Labour is forced to prove the legitimacy of its own claim.
		While party chairman Anne Enger Lahnstein is in danger of losing her seat in the Storting, the Centre Party, with prime minister candidate Johan J. Jakobsen in the lead, continues to follow the party's radical course.
		Had he done anything to increase the capacity of Norway's medical schools while he had the opportunity, he could now have had a batch of newly-trained doctors ready to step into all the vacancies that are a problem in Norway's health care system now and will continue to be so for years to come.
	www.norwaves.com /norwaves/Volume5_1997/v5nw34.html (4773 words)

	The extreme right in Norway 1996
		Norges patriotiske enhetsparti (The patriot unity party of Norway)
		The Progress party, itself, seems to be encouraging its anti-immigration agitation for the coming parliamentary election in autumn 1997.
		The party became infamous for having demanded the forced sterilization of adopted children and foreigners married to Norwegians.
	www.magasinet-monitor.net /english/annual.htm (3430 words)

	CNN - Norway's prime minister says he will step down - September 15, 1997
		The big election winner appeared to be the far-right Party of Progress, with 15.3 percent compared to 6.3 percent in the last national elections.
		The Progress Party, a neo-Thatcherite grouping led by colorful former businessman Carl Hagen, won the protest votes of Norwegians who feel their massive oil wealth is being poured into the wrong pockets.
		Nevertheless, opinion polls showed Norwegians felt their health and welfare services and schools were suffering, and the Progress Party scored with proposals to use some of the oil revenue to improve them.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9709/15/norway (627 words)

	IRR: Norway Managed migration
		Opposition parties from the Labor to the Progress Party are demanding that prime minister Kjell Magne Bondevik explain his ties to the secretive Fellowship Foundation - a Christian 'brotherhood' which meets in Washington.
		The leader of the Progress Party, Hagen, has criticised the parliamentary white paper on security for not going far enough and proposes the infiltration and surveillance of groups that invite fundamentalists and/or those which express views 'that frighten the Norwegian people'.
		Cabinet minister and Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg has proposed that by the Autumn all would-be immigrants and asylum seekers, male and female, seeking residence in Norway must sign a human rights declaration confirming that they understand that forced marriages and female circumcision are forbidden under the law.
	www.irr.org.uk /europebulletin/norway/immigration_law/index.html (604 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Elections to the Norwegian Storting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Both the Progress Party and the Socialist Left Party scored significant gains in terms of votes and seats (the latter augmented by the introduction of at-large mandates, which resulted in a more proportional distribution of Storting seats).
		The Progress Party lost considerable ground in the election (as did the Socialist Left Party to a lesser degree), but Venstre made a modest comeback and won representation in the Storting for the first time in twelve years.
		Thorbjørn Jagland, who had been Labour Party chairman since 1992, succeeded her, but he resigned after the 1997 Storting election, in which Labour received slightly fewer votes and seats than in 1993; the Progress Party emerged from the vote as the second-largest party in the Storting.
	electionresources.org /no (1459 words)

	Bankintroductions.com - NORWAY
		Norway is presently a member of NATO although they rejected European Union (EU) membership in 1972 and in 1994 by a narrow vote.
		Norway today is more of an educated white collar economy moving towards hi-tech and knowledge industries away from its past in farming and fishing.
		Norway’s state-run ‘Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’ also widely known as the Government Petroleum Fund (GPF) is managed by the central bank had a market value of $165 billion USD (January 2005) as its revenues are from state oil sales.
	www.bankintroductions.com /norway.html (1755 words)

	Elections around the world - Norway
		Following parliamentary elections, the leader of the majority party or the leader of the majority coalition is usually appointed Prime Minister by the Monarch with the approval of the parliament.
		Norway votes in tight election, Prime Minister Bondevik has voted early at one of a few polling centres which is open on the Sunday, the day before the official national voting day in order to make voting more convenient for people with work commitments.
		Also discussed are the swings to and from the various parties, with Labour's government partner the Soacialist Left losing one-third of its seats in Parliament and, Norway's most right-leaning party, the Progress Party gaining its biggest election victory ever.
	www.aph.gov.au /LIBRARY/INTGUIdE/POL/elections/norway.htm (394 words)

	Norway party warns voters of ‘dangerous Africans’ -DAWN - International; September 6, 2005
		The picture is the front page of a brochure published by Norway’s Progress Party ahead of a Sept. 12 election which could propel it back into parliament as the second largest party, the biggest on the right and as a potential kingmaker.
		Norway is still largely homogeneous after only a few decades of immigration — non-western immigrants make up under 6 per cent of its 4.5 million people, less than other Scandinavian countries and low by European measures.
		His party won nearly 15 per cent of the vote in an election four years ago and is now polling around 20 per cent — competing with the centre-right Conservative Party for second place in the vote for the 169-seat parliament.
	www.dawn.com /2005/09/06/int5.htm (399 words)

	Politics of Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The functions of the King of Norway are mainly ceremonial, but he has influence as the symbol of national unity.
		Each fylke is headed by a governor appointed by the King in council, with one governor exercising authority in both Oslo and the adjacent county of Akershus.
		June 7, 1905 Norway declared the union with Sweden dissolved; October 26, 1905 Sweden agreed to the repeal of the union
	www.fastload.org /po/Politics_of_Norway.html (639 words)

	Labour remains in the lead (Norway)
		The Labour Party is still Norway's largest political party, despite a 1.5 point drop in voters' support in TNS Gallup's poll for January, made for VG and TV2.
		Coalition partner, the Conservative Party, is up 1 point to 19 per cent, and the right wing Progress Party is also one up to 20 per cent.
		The "Agrarian Party" in Norway is leftist?--I had thought it was made up of grouchy old backward reactionary farmers.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1336407/posts (570 words)

	Norway News
		It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to this year's Bjornson festival in Molde, Nesset og Fraena, an unbroken tradition of annual celebrations of literature since 1992.
		Archaeologists found the remains of a ship from the Viking Age on Tuesday, in a burial mound on a farm outside the coastal city of Larvik.
		Norway's government decided Wednesday not to send additional soldiers to boost NATO forces in the south of Afghanistan.
	www.topix.net /world/norway (628 words)

	RuneGame.com Forums - Norway's Progress Party (FrP) demands Islam banned from Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		If this progress party was also calling on a ban of Christianity and Judaism, 'd respect them more.
		It's a party with a good share of votes, their politics are pretty good for most things, but they're pretty much in the "right wing" when it comes to immigrators with more pigments in their skin than the average Norwegian.
		That's their "3rd or 4th" biggest party, which in the states would mean a fringe group, but maybe they have a multi-party system instead of a two-headed coin flip.
	www.runegame.com /vbf/printthread.php?t=26984 (1921 words)

	Sosialdemokratisk demagogi sirkuleres av BBC
		The progress party is not a far right party, not extremist, not against immigrants, not a neo-facist party, so why do you continue to portray it the other way around, despite of the critisism that this circulation of yours is met with?!
		The imagery of lumping together the progress pary with this menagerie, makes it a textbook example on political propaganda, a circulation of a modern kind of melodramatic myth, the kind of paranoid fantasies that certain extremist political characters tend to use to mobilize their extremist constituency.
		The progress party is a strong advocate of constitutional democracy, rule of law, individual human rights, and it is completely obvious to this party that that power of the State should be limited and bound by and ruled by law.
	www.antipsykopat.org /BBC.php (1801 words)

	Bjørn Stærk blog - Integrity and the Progress Party
		The Progress Party would be forced (or given an excuse) to drop their more insane and/or impossible proposals, leaving a large number of solid and moderate right-wing policies for such a coalition to implement.
		You can't deny that the Progress Party used to have a lot of loose cannons and village idiots in it, and that there are fewer of them now, leading to fewer media embarassment.
		The liberal dilemma in Norway, in my eyes, is as follows: Venstre is the only major party that represents an ideologically liberal purity, combined with a sense of pragmatism that has led it into government twice since 1997, where it can work for liberal causes in a direct fashion.
	blog.bearstrong.net /archive/weblog/001563.html (6449 words)

	www.stortinget.no > About the Storting > Party Groups
		At group meetings the parties define their political positions and formulate their views on issues currently being dealt with in the Storting.
		The size of a group secretariat is determined by the size of the party representation during each electoral term.
		The groups hire and pay the salaries of their political advisers, so the size of this staff is determined by the size of the party and its finances.
	www.stortinget.no /english/partygroups.html (415 words)

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