Progress Parties in Dorvik

There have been various incarnations of Progress parties in Dorvik. The original and most prolific was founded in 4046, which lead many governments before eventually collapsing in support in the 4120s. This original incarnation of the party had the most diverse amount of different ideologies, varying from social democrats to classical liberals. In 4159 the party having taken heavy election defeats and adopting a more and more conservative ideology re-branded into the Progress Democrats, adopting the most conservative platform of all the Progress parties. Eventually, the party once again re-branded into Progress in 4207 following the gradual shift towards and espousal of libertarian and hard classical-liberal policies; the party also sought to return to branding more similar to the original party. In 4218 Progress merged with the Liberal Party to create the Liberal Progress Party, with the Liberal's faction generaly aligning with libertarianism and neo-liberalism whilst the Progress faction tended to be more centrist and a softer version of this. However this party was short lived and dissolved just over a couple of years later. Upon the calling of a snap election, the Progress faction of the party found themselves unable to reform a Progress party and as such factions found their new home in the Pragmatic Union. It was unable to create a new party in time for the next elections either, with that one also being called suddenly. However in 4222, a new Progress Party was formed, espousing a centrist and liberal platform more in tune with the original party, but having adopted blue as its primary colour in a nod to the old Liberal Progress Party, as well as wishing not to use the traditional gold/yellow colour primarily due to possible confusion between them and the Workers Party.