Fatherland Party (Norway)

Fatherland Party Fedrelandspartiet
Leader	Arild Kibsgaard
Founder	Harald Trefall
Founded	17 May 1990
Dissolved	31 December 2008
Headquarters	Bergen
Youth wing	Fatherland Youth
Ideology	Norwegian nationalism Social conservatism Euroscepticism
International affiliation	None
Nordic affiliation	NordNat (1997–99)
Colours	Red, White, Blue
Website
www.fedrelandspartiet.no (defunct)
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The Fatherland Party (Norwegian: Fedrelandspartiet, FLP) was a political party in Norway, which was founded by former local Progress Party politician Harald Trefall in 1990. Primarily based in Western Norway, the party supported nationalist positions such as opposition to immigration and the European Union. It got two representatives elected to public office in the 1991 local elections, in a county and municipal council respectively. The party never won representation since, and was dissolved in 2008 after years of electoral inactivity.

The FLP was founded on 17 May 1990 by Harald Trefall, a member of Folkebevegelsen mot innvandring (FMI) and former Bergen city councillor for the Progress Party. He became noted in the late 1980s for his opposition to immigration, and was the first candidate for the Stop Immigration party in Hordaland in 1989. In one of the earliest notable acts by the party, it put an ad in the Christian newspaper Dagen, where it called for Christians to fight together with the party to stop Norway from becoming "a Muslim country". In its first election, the 1991 local elections, it won one representative in the Karmøy municipal council, and one representative in the Hordaland county council. The party won 0.5% of the vote in the 1993 parliamentary election, and combined with Stop Immigration more than 15,000 votes. Trefall stepped down as leader of the party in 1994 after "six years of resistance struggle against immigration," although he would remain chairman of the party's so-called Council.

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