Centre Party (Norway)
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Template:Politics of Norway The Centre Party (Senterpartiet) is a Norwegian political party founded in 1920. Until 1959 it bore the name Bondepartiet, the Agrarian Party. The Centre Partys policy is not based on any of the great ideologies of the 19th and 20th century, but has a great focus on decentralization of actual power and capital. Thus the party strongly opposes Norwegian membership in the European Union. The party has been marked by its pragmatic style of politics, which has allowed it to cooperate with everything from the Conservative Party to the Socialistic Left Party.
Since the Centre Party was created as a political fraction of a Norwegian agrarian organization, the party has changed a great deal. Only few years after the creation the party broke with its mother organization and started developing a policy based on decentralization, moving away from a single-minded agrarian policy, like that which has trapped many other european Centre Partys conduct.
The current leader is Åslaug Haga (since 2003). The party is running for government together with Norwegian Labour Party and the Socialist Left Party for the upcoming elections fall 2005.
Party leaders
- Johan E. Mellbye 1920-1921
- Kristoffer Høgset 1921-1927
- Erik Enge 1927-1930
- Jens Hundseid 1930-1938
- Nils Trædal 1938-1948
- Einar Frogner 1948-1954
- Per Borten 1955-1967
- John Austrheim 1967-1973
- Dagfinn Vårvik 1973-1977
- Gunnar Stålsett 1977-1979
- Johan J. Jakobsen 1979-1991
- Anne Enger Lahnstein 1991-1999
- Odd Roger Enoksen 1999-2003
- Åslaug Haga 2003-
External link
- Official web site (http://www.senterpartiet.no/)
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