Right wing party to make comeback

Media hype surrounding the death of Progress Party founder Mogens Glistrup has caused some of its former members to work on reviving the nearly defunct party and to try their luck at securing parliament seats in the next election.

‘We’re going to try again,’ said Ernst Simonsen, the Progress Party secretary, who explained that Glistrup was a mixed blessing for the party.

‘Some people wanted to be with us because of Glistrup, but others wouldn’t join while he was a member,’ he said. ‘Now that that issue is over with, we can all stand together.’

The decision to jump-start the party again was fuelled by a recent increase in membership from 50 to its current 423. In addition, a number of former party members have made large contributions to help its cause.

When Glistrup founded the party in 1972, he based it upon the ideology that citizens should not pay taxes. The party later became extremely anti-immigration as more Muslims began coming to Denmark.

The same general themes are at the core of the ‘new’ Progress Party’s platform.

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Right wing party to make comeback
the Copenhagen Post