The Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, FrP)

The Progress Par­ty (Frem­skrittspar­ti­et, FrP) of Nor­way was found­ed in 1973 by Anders Lange as an anti-tax protest move­ment, and grad­u­al­ly evolved into a full-fledged right-wing par­ty under the lead­er­ship of Carl I. Hagen (1978–2006). It com­bines eco­nom­ic lib­er­al­ism (cut­ting tax­es, reduc­ing state inter­ven­tion) with stricter immi­gra­tion poli­cies, law-and-order stances, and a nationalist-conservative ten­den­cy that has grown in influ­ence with­in the par­ty in recent years. FrP first entered gov­ern­ment in coali­tion with the Con­ser­v­a­tive Par­ty in 2013, and after the 2025 elec­tion became Norway’s sec­ond largest par­ty in the Stort­ing. Its posi­tion­ing as a “right-wing pop­ulist” force is con­test­ed: schol­ars some­times describe it as such, oth­ers see it as a more mod­er­ate par­ty with both lib­er­tar­i­an and con­ser­v­a­tive strands.

Ref­er­ences:

• Progress Par­ty (Nor­way) — Wikipedia
• The Nor­we­gian Progress Par­ty: An Estab­lished Pop­ulist Party
• A Mat­ter of Decen­cy? The Progress Par­ty in Nor­we­gian Immi­gra­tion Politics
• What Right-Wing Pop­ulists Look Like in Nor­way (The Atlantic)
• Pop­ulism and the Growth of the Rad­i­cal Right in the Nordic Countries