Liberal People's Party (Norway)


The Liberal People's Party was 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. The DLF then took increasingly more classically 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. 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 the youth wing Liberalistisk Ungdom seceded from the DLF and joined the Capitalist Party as their youth wing.
In 2017 the party congress decided to shut down the party by the end of the year. Followers were recommended to join the Union for the Study of Objectivism and the Capitalist Party.

Objectives

DLF wanted to: