The action was started in March 1989; within three weeks of its formation, approximately 4,000 people had joined it as members.
[3] The action was originally headed by Vidar Karlstad,[1] but was immediately also supported by Anders John Aune, a former Member of Parliament for the Labour Party.
[4] Among the issues for the party was a reduction of taxes in order to improve the conditions of the county which was haunted by poor fishing outputs and people moving out.
[4] After Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland had visited the county the previous year, Karlstad stated that "it is incomprehensible for us that the Prime Minister of the country travels all over the world teaching other nations on how to govern themselves, while our county lay as a forgotten colony which people escape from".
This gave the party one representative in the Norwegian parliament, of which its leader Anders John Aune served for a four-year term.