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Progress Party (Denmark)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 with 28 out of 179 seats, making it one of the largest parties of the parliament, though it did not form a part of the ruling coalition. The party lost gradually most of the support it had among the population, and in 1993, a number of party members rebelled, most notably Pia Kjrsgaard, 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. External links
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