Mogens Glistrup

Mogens Glistrup (born 28 May 1926 in Rønne, died July 1, 2008 in Kongens Lyngby) is a Danish lawyer and politician, Member of the Folketinget, founder and chairman of the Progress Party. Curriculum vitae

He graduated from the University of Copenhagen with a degree in law and later educated at UC Berkeley. He practiced law in 1981 as a lawyer.

He gained popularity on the television show of January 30, 1971, when he explained how to avoid paying income tax. On August 22, 1972, he set up the Progress Party, advocating extreme liberal slogans, demanding, among other things, radical bureaucracy and the public sector, as well as against taxation. In the 1973 Folketinget elections, progressives unexpectedly won 15.9% of the vote and 28 seats in the parliament. One of the deputies elected to Mogens Glistrup was a politician who maintained him in subsequent elections (1975, 1977, 1979 and 1981). In 1983 he was eventually sentenced to prison for tax evasion, which involved his imprisonment in the prison and exclusion from the parliament. Pia Kjærsgaard, representing the more pragmatic wing of the party, took over in the Progressive Party. Mogens Glistrup again sat in Folketinget between 1987 and 1990. In the early 1990s he was excluded from the group he formed. He returned to him in 1999, when the Progress Party was in crisis after leaving it all. Mogens Glistrup again became its leader, in 2001 the group under his leadership did not exceed the electoral threshold. The politician has, in the meantime, radicalized his passwords, mainly directed against immigrants and refugees, and was repeatedly charged with racist statements.

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