Moderate Liberal Party (Norwegian: Moderate Venstre) was a Norwegian political party that emerged from the conservative branch of the Liberal Party in 1888, consisting mainly of the Low Church. The party became the third Norwegian parliamentary party, after only four years of a two-party system.
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