Danish People's Party

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The Danish People's Party, Dansk Folkeparti, is a nationalist political party in Denmark. Opponents label the party racist, far right and/or populist.

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The party was founded in 1995, by a splinter group of the Progress Party (Fremskridtspartiet)[wp].[1] Whereas the Progress Party (PP) had been created in 1972 as a motley but somewhat libertarian tax protest and quite chaotic affair, which only later took up anti-immigration, the Danish People's Party (DPP) was created to enforce strict compliance with the party line and with support for the welfare state as one of its cornerstones alongside anti-immigration[2] and "soft"[3]Euroscepticism. The DPP radically toned down the tax protest element of its PP predecessor and instead focused on freezing tax rates, though sympathetic to minor tax cuts. Other focus areas are protection of the elderly and socially disadvantaged's interests (though preferably only for "proper" Danish citizens), and a tough on crime attitude which is also linked to the DPP's anti-immigration policy by heightening moral panics about immigrant gangs.

The DPP's anti-immigration and anti-Muslim policies and suggestions have become ever harsher since the party's founding as other Danish parties (from the Conservatives to the Social Democrats) have moved their immigration stance closer to the DPP's which has then upped the ante to further "outbid" these other parties. However, the DPP leadership has from the very beginning been extremely diligent in keeping out any white supremacy or Neo-Nazi tendencies and any member associating with such organizations is immediately excluded. The DPP was thus originally created as a socially conservative splinter group in contrast to some of its anti-immigration allies, such as the Sweden Democrats, which has its roots among the white supremacy movement, or the Norwegian Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet)[4] and Dutch Party For Freedom, which are originally libertarian.

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. The Danish Progress Party still exists, but is a spent political force having failed to win any national and few local seats since 1998. The party lost its last municipal seat at the local elections of 2009.
  2. Just in case the party's name isn't obvious enough, it has long used the slogan "Vote Danish!"
  3. This means that the DPP doesn't want to dismantle or a Danish exit from the European Union. The party even accepts the EU's internal market, just not filthy foreigners' right to steal jobs or mooch on welfare in Denmark the free movement of labor bit. Similarly, the party clamours for a reintroduction of border controls to keep out filthy foreigners criminals and illegal immigrants.
  4. It's not just a coincidence that the Norwegian and Danish Progress Parties share the same name as their ideologies are or at least were broadly similar.
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