Progressive Party Iceland

The Progressive Party (Framsóknarflokkurinn in Icelandic) is an agrarian and liberal party in Iceland. The party is member of the Liberal International. It supplies Iceland's current Prime Minister, Halldór Ásgrímsson, and governs in coalition with the conservative Independence Party. From 1995 to 2004 it participated in the coalition as the junior partner, but the two parties agreed after the 2003 legislative elections that Ásgrímsson would become Prime Minister in September 2004. He duly took office on 15 September.

Though the Progressive Party was originally founded as an agrarian party and it still finds most of its support with farmers and fishers, it gradually took the position of a liberal party in the political spectrum. It was founded in 1916 as a merger of two agrarian parties, the Farmers Party (Bændaflokkur) and the Independent Farmers (Óháðir bændur).

Throughout Iceland's history as a self-governing and independent nation, the Progressive Party was most often the second largest political party in the country. It often joined government coalitions with either the Independence Party on the right, or with left-wing parties.

See also

• Timeline of liberal and centrist parties in Iceland

External Link

Official web site (http://www.framsokn.is)

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