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A small and changing number of other parties, such as the Communists and the Justice Party (Retsforbundet; a single-tax party based on the ideas of Henry George), complicated the political and parliamentary situation. From 1953 to 1968 the Social Democrats were in power, either alone or in coalition with the Radicals and, for a short period, the Justice Party, and always with a Social Democrat as prime minister. The Radical Liberals' leader, Hilmar Baunsgaard, deserted the Social Democrats and headed a coalition with the Conservatives and the Liberals until 1971, when Jens Otto Krag again formed a Social Democratic government. An electoral landslide resulted in heavy losses for the four old parties and the emergence of three new parties: the Centre Democrats (Centrum-Demokraterne), the (Kristeligt Folkeparti), and the (Fremskridtspartiet), an antitax party. The leader of the Conservative Party, Poul Schlter, formed a minority government with three other centre-right parties:! the Liberals, the Centre Democrats, and the Christian People's Party. The coalition government came under greater pressure from the left-wing Socialist People's Party and the right-wing Progress Party, both of which gained seats in the Folketing at the end of the 1980s; the Progress Party advocated substantial cuts in the public sector and a more restrictive policy toward the dramatically increased number of refugees. parti democrat