Editing Progress Party (Norway) (section)

=== Progress Party and Carl I. Hagen ===
In early 1974, Kristofer Almås, Deputy Member of Parliament [[Carl I. Hagen]], along with some others, broke away and formed the short-lived [[Reform Party (Norway, 1974)|Reform Party]].<ref name="tv2frp">{{Cite news|url=http://www.tv2nyhetene.no/innenriks/politikk/frps-historie-2577871.html|title=FrPs historie|trans-title=History of the Frp|publisher=[[TV 2 (Norway)|TV2]]|first=Kjetil|last=Løset|date=15 June 2009|access-date=11 November 2009|language=no}}</ref> The background for this was a criticism of ALPs "undemocratic organisation" and lack of a real party program. However, in the same year, Anders Lange died; consequently Hagen stepped in as a regular Member of Parliament in Lange's place. As a result, the Reform Party merged back into ALP already the following year. The party adopted its current name, the ''Progress Party'', on 29 January 1977, inspired by the great success of the Danish Progress Party.<ref name="snl">{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia = [[Store norske leksikon]] | url = http://www.snl.no/Fremskrittspartiet/Frp|title=Fremskrittspartiet – Frp|trans-title=The Progress Party – Frp | first = Knut Are|last=Tvedt|author-link=Knut Are Tvedt|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|date=29 September 2009|access-date=11 November 2009|language=no}}</ref> The Progress Party performed poorly in the [[1977 Norwegian parliamentary election|1977 parliamentary election]], and was left without parliamentary representation. In the 1978 party convention, Carl I. Hagen was elected as party chairman. Hagen soon started to expand the political program of the party, and built a conventional party organisation, a step which Lange and some of his followers had opposed.<ref name="kinos"/>{{Sfn|Arter|1999|p=106}} The party's youth organisation, the [[Progress Party's Youth]], was also established in 1978.<ref name="dbmg"/> Hagen succeeded in sharpening the image of the party as an anti-tax movement. His criticism of the wisdom of hoarding billions of dollars in the "[[The Government Pension Fund of Norway|Oil Fund]]" hit a nerve owing to perceived declines in infrastructure, schools, and [[social service]]s and long queues at hospitals.<ref name="afp040506">{{Cite news|url=http://www.aftenposten.no/fakta/innsikt/article1303263.ece|work=[[Aftenposten]]|title=Fra parentes til mektig partieier|trans-title=From parenthesis to powerful party owner|first=Gunnar|last=Magnus|date=4 May 2006|access-date=27 August 2010|language=no|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604122155/http://www.aftenposten.no/fakta/innsikt/article1303263.ece|archive-date=4 June 2011}}</ref>