Free Democrats (Norway)

[citation needed] After the 1994 Progress Party national convention several representatives of the "libertarian wing" broke out and founded a party more ideologically consistently libertarian, the Free Democrats.

[citation needed] Four of the defectors were MPs, and formed an independent group in Parliament of Norway.

[citation needed] Its first leader Ellen Christine Christiansen was among the four MPs, and also served in Oslo city council until 1995.

The Free Democrats no longer participate in elections and function merely as a think tank and organization for Norwegian libertarians, regardless of their political allegiance.

[citation needed] People associated with the Free Democrats also founded the online newspaper Liberaleren.