Liberal People's Party (Norway)

This article is about the party founded in 1992. For the party in existence from 1972 to 1988, see Liberal People's Party (Norway, 1972).
Liberal People's Party
Leader Vegard Martinsen
Founded 1992
Headquarters Oslo
Youth wing Liberalistisk Ungdom
Ideology Classical liberalism, Laissez-faire, Objectivism
Colours Purple
Website
www.stemdlf.no
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The Liberal People's Party (Norwegian: Det Liberale Folkepartiet, DLF) is a classical liberal Norwegian political party created in 1992 by some of the members of the old Liberal People's Party.

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 has since then taken increasingly more classical 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.

With meager showings in parliamentary elections, DLF's best result was achieved in the 2009 parliamentary election. Running in only three of 19 counties, they achieved a total of 350 votes – 0.013% of the national vote, or about 0.1% in each of the counties in which they ran (Oslo, Hedmark and Rogaland). In the 2011 local elections they received 247 votes in Oslo, a doubling in the number of votes from the last local election.

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

Objectives

DLF wants to:[3]

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