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Progress Party (other)
Progress Party or Party of Progress may refer to: Active parties * Progress Party (Denmark) * Progress Party of Equatorial Guinea * Gabonese Progress Party * Progress Party (Iraq) * Progress Party (Jersey) * Progress Party (Norway) * Progress Party (Russia) * Alsatian Progress Party * Saskatchewan Progress Party * Party of Progress (Germany) * Party of Progressive Conservatives (Tunisia) * Party of Progress and Socialism (Morocco) Former parties * Australian Capital Territory Progress and Welfare Council * Progress Party (Australia) * Christian People's Party (Faroe Islands) * German Progress Party * Progress Party (Ghana) * Progress Party (Iran) * Progress Party (Norway, 1957) * Progress Party (Sweden) * Progress Party (Thailand, 1983) See also *Progressive Party (other) *Progressive Conservative Party of Canada *Progressive Democratic Party (other) *Progressive Green Party (other) Progressive Green Party may refer to: * Groen (political part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progress Party (Denmark)
The Progress Party (, FrP) is a right-wing populism, right-wing populist List of political parties in Denmark, political party in Denmark which was founded in 1972. The party's founder, the former lawyer Mogens Glistrup, gained widespread popularity as well as notoriety in the country after he appeared on Danish television, stating that he paid 0% in income tax. The party was placed on the Right-wing populism, right of the political spectrum as it believed in radical tax cuts (including removing the income tax altogether) and vowed to cut government spending. In the late 1970s, its agenda was "the gradual abolition of income tax, the disbandment of most of the civil service, the abolition of the diplomatic service and the scrapping of 90% of all legislation". From the 1980s, the party also adopted anti-immigration as a key issue. The party entered the Danish parliament after the 1973 Danish general election, 1973 landslide election and immediately became the second largest party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian People's Party (Faroe Islands)
The Christian People's Party, Faroese Progress and Fisheries Party (, KFFFF), generally known as the Christian People's Party (, KF), was a political party in the Faroe Islands. History The party was established in 1954 by dissidents from the People's Party, and was originally known as the Progress Party (''Framburðsflokkurin''). In the 1958 elections it won a single seat in the Løgting,Faroes/DK Parties and Elections taken by . The party retained its single seat in elections in , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Green Party (other)
Progressive Green Party may refer to: * Groen (political party), Belgium, an independent Flemish progressive Green party * Progressive Green Party (New Zealand), an environmentalist political party in New Zealand in the 1990s See also * Progressive Party (other) Progressive Party may refer to: Active parties * Progressive Party of Aotearoa New Zealand * Progressive Party, Brazil * Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia, Canada * Progressive Party (Chile) * Progressive Party of Working Peo ... * Green Party (other) * Progress Party (other) {{Disambiguation, political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Democratic Party (other)
Progressive Democratic Party may refer to: * Progressive Democratic Party of Afghanistan, founded 1966 * Progressive Democratic Party (Bangladesh), founded 2007 * Progressive Democratic Party (Gibraltar), 2006–2013 * Progressive Democratic Party of Guadeloupe, founded 1991 * Progressive Democratic Party (Kosovo), formed in 2014 * Progressive Democratic Party (Liberia), formed in 2005 * Progressive Democratic Party of the North, in Luxembourg, 1931–1937 * Progressive Democratic Party (Malaysia), formed in 2002 as Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party * Progressive Democratic Party (Montserrat), 1970–1987 * Progressive Democratic Party (Paraguay), created in 2007 * Progressive Democrats, in Ireland, 1985–2009 * Progressive Democratic Party (Thailand), 2005–2007 * Progressive Democratic Party (Trinidad and Tobago), 1946–1956 * Progressive Democratic Party (Tunisia), 1983–2012 * Progressive Democratic Party (South Carolina), in the United States, 1944–1948 * Progressive De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Conservative Party Of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC; ) was a Centrism, centre to centre-right List of federal political parties in Canada, federal political party in Canada that existed from 1942 to 2003. From Canadian Confederation in 1867 until 1942, the Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942), original Conservative Party of Canada participated in numerous governments and had multiple names. In 1942, its name was changed to the Progressive Conservative Party under the request of newly elected party leader Premier of Manitoba, Premier John Bracken of Manitoba, a former member of the Progressive Party of Manitoba. In the 1957 Canadian federal election, 1957 federal election, John Diefenbaker carried the party to their first victory in 27 years and 1958 Canadian federal election, the following year, led the party to the largest federal electoral landslide in history. During his tenure, human rights initiatives were achieved, most notably the Canadian Bill of Rights, Bill of Righ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Party (other)
Progressive Party may refer to: Active parties * Progressive Party of Aotearoa New Zealand * Progressive Party, Brazil * Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia, Canada * Progressive Party (Chile) * Progressive Party of Working People, Cyprus * Dominica Progressive Party * Progressive Party (Iceland) * Progressive Party (Sardinia), Italy * Jordanian Progressive Party * Serbian Progressive Party in Macedonia * Sabah Progressive Party, Malaysia * Progressive Party of Maldives * Martinican Progressive Party, Martinique * Nigerien Progressive Party – African Democratic Rally, Niger * Serbian Progressive Party * Progressive Party (South Korea, 2017) * Progressive Party (United States, 2020) * Progressive Party of Tanzania – Maendeleo * Progressive Party (Trinidad and Tobago) * Oregon Progressive Party, USA * Vermont Progressive Party, USA * Melanesian Progressive Party, Vanuatu Historical or former parties * Progressive Party (1901), Australia * Prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progress Party (Thailand, 1983)
The Progress Party (; ) was a political party active in Thailand between 1983 and 1989. History The Progress Party was founded on 10 December 1980 and registered on 22 March 1983 by Uthai Pimjaichon who had been speaker of the House of Representatives from April to October 1976 and later broken away from the Democrat Party. In the 1983 general election the Progress Party won three seats. In the 1986 general election the Progress Party won seven seats and in the 1988 general election the Progress Party won eight seats. Most of the party's seats represented constituencies in Eastern Thailand, more particularly Chachoengsao and Chonburi provinces. In 1989 Progress Party merged into the Solidarity Party. General election results {, class="wikitable" style=text-align:center !Election !Leader !Votes !% !Seats !+/– , - , 1983 , Uthai Pimjaichon , 338,140 , 1.3% , , – , - , 1986 , Uthai Pimjaichon , 1,998,721 , 5.3% , , 4 , - , 1988 , Uthai Pimjaichon , 1,114,468 , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progress Party (Sweden)
The Progress Party (, FsP), later the Swedish Progress Party (, FsP) was a minor Swedish political party that existed in various forms from 1968 to the 2000s, when local parties merged with the Sweden Democrats, or developed into distinct local parties. It was based mostly in Scania, although it at times had active local chapters in other places. For a time, it saw itself as a Swedish equivalent of the Progress Party in Denmark and Progress Party in Norway. Early years The party was founded on 6 November 1968 by Bertil Rubin, a former Member of Parliament for the Centre Party, and the remains of the minor parties ''Medborgerlig samling'' and ''Samling för framsteg''. The party soon had 10,000 members and planned to run for the 1970 general election, but it failed because of economic problems. The party won only three mandates in Klippan and was practically dissolved as a national party following the defeat. The party lost all its mandates in Klippan after the 1973 local el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progress Party (Norway, 1957) ...
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 7 October 1957.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1438 The result was a victory for the Labour Party, which won 78 of the 150 seats in the Storting. As a result, the Gerhardsen government continued in office. This was the last time a single party won a majority of seats on its own in a Norwegian election. Newspaper endorsements Results Voter demographics Seat distribution Notes References {{Norwegian elections General elections in Norway 1950s elections in Norway Norway Parliamentary Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progress Party (Iran)
Progress Party or Party for Progress () was a fascist political party in Iran led by Abdolhossein Teymourtash, described as the "spurious" party of government and functioning as a "vehicle for executing royal intentions" of Reza Shah. Modeled after Mussolini's National Fascist Party and Atatürk's Republican People's Party, it subscribed ideas similar to the short-lived New Iran Party. With the fall of Abdolhossein Teymourtash Abdolhossein Teymourtash (; 25 September 1883 – 3 October 1933) was an influential Iranian statesman who served as the first minister of court of the Pahlavi dynasty from 1925 to 1932, and is credited with playing a crucial role in laying the ... in late 1932, the party soon melted away and was outlawed on the grounds that it harbors republican sentiments. References Political parties established in 1927 1927 establishments in Iran Political parties disestablished in 1932 1932 disestablishments in Iran Monarchist parties in Iran Neo-fas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progress Party (Ghana)
The Progress Party (PP) was the ruling party in Ghana during the Second Republic (1969–1972). In the 29 August 1969 elections, the PP won 105 of the National Assembly's 140 seats. The party was co-founded in 1969 by Kofi Abrefa Busia, who was born as a Bono prince in the traditional kingdom of Wenchi, and by Lawyer Sylvester Kofi Williams, who was born as an Ahanta prince, and a descendant of the Ahanta King Badu Bonsu II. Kofi Abrefa Busia led the Party, and became the 2nd Prime Minister on 3 September 1969. Sylvester Kofi Williams, served as the ruling Party's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, in Ghana's 2nd republic, quasi civilian government. The PP declared support for apartheid South Africa's white minority government. On 13 January 1972, the Progress Party government led by Busia was overthrown through a bloodless military coup led by Colonel Acheampong. The party together with all other political parties were banned. After the 1972 military junta banned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Progress Party
The German Progress Party (, DFP) was the first modern political party in Germany, founded by liberal members of the Prussian House of Representatives () in 1861 in opposition to Minister President Otto von Bismarck. History Upon the failed Revolutions of 1848, several deputies in the Landtag diet of Prussia maintained the idea of constitutionalism as it had been developed in the ''Vormärz'' era. In the 1850s, these Old Liberals gathered in a parliamentary group around Georg von Vincke, an originally conservative Prussian official and landowner (''Junker''). Vincke, former member of the Frankfurt Parliament, a polished orator and firebrand, had fallen out with Prime Minister Otto Theodor von Manteuffel over his reactionary policies and in 1852 even fought a duel with Bismarck after a heated verbal exchange in parliament (both men missed). When under the regency of William I of Prussia from 1858 the Prussian policies of the new era turned towards a more centrist stance, a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
