The Progress Party,commonly abbreviated as FrP,is a right-wing political party in Norway. The FrP has traditionally self-identified as classical-liberal and as a libertarian party but is generally positioned to the right of the Conservative Party,and is considered the most right-wing party to be represented in parliament. It is often described as right-wing populist,which has been disputed in public discourse,and sometimes described by academics as far-right. By 2020,the party attained a growing national conservative faction. After the 2017 parliamentary election,it was Norway's third largest political party,with 26 representatives in the Storting. It was a partner in the government coalition led by the Conservative Party from 2013 to 2020.
Carl Ivar Hagen is a Norwegian politician and former Vice President of the Storting,the Norwegian parliament. He was the leader of the Progress Party from 1978 to 2006,when he stepped down in favour of Siv Jensen. Under his leadership,he was the undisputed leader and,in many ways,personally controlled its ideology and policies.
The Progress Party's Youth,is the youth wing of the Norwegian political party the Progress Party. It is generally considered to be more libertarian than the Progress Party itself. The organization has active chapters in all counties of Norway as well as in over 50 municipalities.
Erling Folkvord is a Norwegian politician for the Red party,and a former member of the Parliament of Norway. A revolutionary socialist,he was one of the leading members of the Workers' Communist Party and the Red Electoral Alliance before they merged to form Red. He sat as a member of the Parliament of Norway from 1993 to 1997,becoming the first socialist to the left of the Socialist Left Party and the Labour Party in parliament since 1961. He later lost his position in 1997,and has been a candidate for parliament ever since. He has been a member of the Oslo City Council from 1983 to 1993,and again since 1999. Folkvord has become one of the best-known Norwegian politicians on the left who is not connected with the Labour Party and the Socialist Left Party.
Terje Søviknes is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party who served as the minister of petroleum and energy from December 2016 to August 2018. From December 2019 to January 2020 he was the minister of the elderly and public health. He also serves as the party's second deputy leader since 2019,a post he previously held from 1999 to 2001.
Helge Lunde Seip was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party and later the Liberal People's Party.
Bent Høie is a Norwegian politician from the Conservative Party who served as county governor of Rogaland since 2021. He previously served as Minister of Health and Care Services from 2013 to 2021,and a member of the Storting from Rogaland from 2000 to 2021.
Raymond Johansen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He served as Governing Mayor of Oslo from 2015 to 2023. A former member of the Socialist Left Party,Johansen previously served as the Oslo city commissioner for transport and environment from 1992 to 1995,when his party withdrew from the city cabinet. After joining Labour,he served as the party secretary from 2009 to 2015.
Ulf Isak Leirstein is a Norwegian politician,formerly for the Progress Party and then independent,and a member of the Storting from 2005 to 2021. He left the party after it was revealed that he had sent pornographic pictures to a mailing list belonging to the Progress Party's youth wing.
Aslak Sira Myhre is a Norwegian culture administrator. Since 2014 he is director of the National Library of Norway. Myhre has been a leftwing politician,and was for a period leader of the former party Red Electoral Alliance (RV). In the local election in Oslo in 2015 he was listed for Red,the party succeeding Red Electoral Alliance since 2007,however not on top,and he did not get a seat.
Ketil Solvik-Olsen is a Norwegian politician of the Progress Party. He served as the party's first deputy leader from 2021 to 2023. He also served as Minister of Transport and Communications from 2013 to 2018 and as the party's second deputy leader from 2013 to 2019.
Robert Eriksson is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party. He served as Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion in Solberg's Cabinet from 2013 to 2015.
Ola Elvestuen is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party who served as Minister of Climate and the Environment from 2018 to 2020. He was also the party's deputy leader from 2008 to 2020,and has been an MP for Oslo since 2013.
Eirik Lae Solberg is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He has served as the governing mayor of Oslo since 2023 and was previously the Oslo City Commissioner for Finance from 2014 to 2015. Lae Solberg has also been a deputy member of parliament for Oslo since 2021,having previously done so between 1993 and 1997 for Buskerud.
Guri Melby is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. She has served as the party leader since 2020 and Minister of Education from 2020 to 2021.
The 1994 national convention of the Progress Party of Norway was held from 15 April to 17 April at the hotel BolkesjøTuristhotell in Bolkesjø,Telemark. It was originally set up to be a normal convention with 157 delegates in a non-election year,but because of mounting antagonism between a traditionalist and a libertarian faction,it became clear some months before the conventions that personal positions could be at stake. The party leader seat,held by Carl I. Hagen since 1978,was up for re-election. The deputy leaders Ellen Wibe and Hans J. Røsjorde was not up for election until 1995,but there were talks about forming a motion of no confidence against Wibe. The political disagreements roughly corresponded to a cleavage between two factions.
Stian Berger Røsland is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He succeeded Erling Lae as Governing Mayor of Oslo in 2009. He served until 2015,when he was replaced by Labour politician Raymond Johansen after the Conservatives and allies narrowly lost the majority in Oslo city council in the 2015 local elections. He also served as commissioner of finance under Erling Lae from 2007 to 2009.
Hans Andreas Limi is a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Progress Party. He is currently an MP for the Akershus constituency since 2013 and the party's first deputy leader since 2023. He previously served as the party's parliamentary leader from 2017 to 2020.
Stefan Magnus Brittmark Heggelund is a Norwegian communication consultant and politician for the Conservative Party. He served as a member of parliament for Oslo from 2013 to 2021.
Lan Marie Nguyen Berg is a Norwegian politician from the Green Party. She currently serves as an MP for Oslo since 2021 and as one of the party's deputy leaders since 2022. Berg previously served as Oslo City Commissioner for transport and the environment from 2015 to 2021,when she resigned following a confidence vote.
