The Progress Party (Danish: Fremskridtspartiet) is a Danish political party, formed in 1972. Its founder, the former lawyer Mogens Glistrup, gained huge popularity in Denmark after he appeared on Danish television, showing that he paid 0 % in income tax. The party was placed on the right of the political spectrum, as it supported political and economic liberalism, believed in radical tax cuts (including removing the income tax altogether), and also vowed to cut government spending. An example is the suggestion to replace the entire department of defence with an answering machine with the recorded message "we surrender" in Russian. The party entered the Danish parliament, the Folketing, the same year in the 1973 Danish parliamentary election with 28 out of 179 seats, making it the second-largest party of the parliament.
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