Liberal People's Party (Norway)

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Liberal People's Party
Det Liberale Folkepartiet
Leader Vegard Martinsen
Founded1992
Dissolved2017
Succeeded by Capitalist Party
Headquarters Oslo
Youth wing Liberalistisk Ungdom
Ideology Classical liberalism
Laissez-faire
Objectivism
ColoursPurple
Website
www.stemdlf.no
Campaign booth ahead of the 2009 election. Valg 2009 034.jpg
Campaign booth ahead of the 2009 election.

The Liberal People's Party (Norwegian : Det Liberale Folkepartiet, DLF) was a classical liberal Norwegian political party created in 1992 by some of the members of the old Liberal People's Party.

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History

During the 1990s, some of the Progress Party's members considered the party to have become less liberal than it had been in its earlier days. These members of the Progress Party then decided to join the DLF. [1] The DLF then took increasingly more classically liberal viewpoints on most issues, emerging as a promoter of economic liberalism and laissez-faire capitalism. The party's politics states that the state should only protect individuals' rights through police, courts of law and a military service.

The party's parliament election results are as follows:

In 1993, the party won 725 votes 0.03%

In 1997, the party won 258 votes 0.01%

In 2001, the party won 166 votes 0.01%

In 2005, the party won 213 votes 0.01%

In 2009, the party won 350 votes 0.01%

In 2013, the party won 909 votes 0.03% the best results in the party’s history

In 2017, the party did not run. This was because the party dissolved at the end of 2017.

The party's local election results are as follows:

In 1995, the party did not run

In 1999, the party did not run

In 2003, the party got 113 votes 0.01%

In 2007, the party got 127 votes 0.01%

In 2011, the party got 247 votes 0.01% all in Oslo

In 2015, the party did not run

In 2014, the youth wing Liberalistisk Ungdom (Liberal Youth) seceded from the DLF and joined the Capitalist Party as their youth wing. [2]

In 2017, the party congress decided to shut down the party by the end of the year. Followers were recommended to join the Union for the Study of Objectivism and the Capitalist Party. [3]

Objectives

DLF wanted to: [4]

Party leaders

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References

  1. Det Liberale Folkepartiet. "DLFs historie" (in Norwegian).
  2. "Liberalistisk Ungdom" (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 14 January 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  3. Det Liberale Folkepartiet. "DLF legges ned" (in Norwegian).
  4. Det Liberale Folkepartiet. "Program Stortingsvalget 2009" (in Norwegian).