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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, wich has allowed it to cooperate with everything from the Conservative Party to the Socialistic Left Party. A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

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 wich 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 upcomming elections fall 2005. Åslaug Haga (born 1959 in Nes, Akershus) is a Norwegian politician. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Det norske Arbeiderparti - The Norwegian Labour Party The Norwegian Labour Party (Det norske Arbeiderparti, DNA or Arbeiderpartiet, AP) is a social democratic political party in Norway. ... The Socialist Left Party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti or SV), is a Norwegian political party founded in 1975. ...

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-

Jens Hundseid (1883–December 13, 1965) was a Norwegian politician from the Agrarian Party. ... Per Borten Per Borten (April 3, 1913 - January 20, 2005) was a Norwegian politician from the Centre Party. ... Anne Enger Lahnstein (born December 9, 1949) is a Norwegian politician, but out of politics for the moment. ... Åslaug Haga (born 1959 in Nes, Akershus) is a Norwegian politician. ...

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Official web site (http://www.senterpartiet.no/)

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Centre Party (Norway) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (434 words)
	The Centre Party's policy is not based on any of the great ideologies of the 19th and 20th century, but has a focus on maintaining decentralized economic development and political decision-making.
	The party has supported both Socialist and non-Socialist coalition governments; between 1930 and 2000 the Centre Party has participated in seven governments, three of which were led by a Prime Minister from the party.
	In the 2005 parliamentary election the party ran for government together with the Norwegian Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet, Ap) and the Socialist Left Party (SV), with the Centre Party constituting the "green part" of that Red-Green Coalition.

Norway - Search View - MSN Encarta (7567 words)
	Norway is in roughly the same northerly latitude as Alaska, but has a much milder climate thanks to the moderating effects of the warm waters of the North Atlantic Drift (an extension of the Gulf Stream), which flow along the country’s Atlantic coast.
	Norway has a total labour force of about 2 million with unemployment at 4.4 per cent.The work force is distributed among the various economic sectors as follows: agriculture, forestry, and fishing, 4 per cent; manufacturing and industry, 22 per cent; services and trade, 74 per cent.
	Norway is a constitutional and parliamentary monarchy that is hereditary.

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