Youth politics Velle served as the leader of the Viken Progress Party's Youth from 2021 to 2022 and was elected leader of the national Progress Party's Youth in April 2022. He was re-elected in 2024. He built up a large social media following during his leadership, which became particularly prevalent during the 2023 school elections, where his party became the second largest. Two years later, his party became the largest party at that year's school elections. He caused some controversy in February 2024 when he criticised dating and sex culture, calling it "tinderfied" and went on to argue that "some groups of men have access to all the girls while the rest don't get any". He also argued that equality had gone too far, citing that women had been lifted, which had gone at the expense of men. Though he went on to apologise for this claim, some critics accused him of arguing that female equality had stripped men of the chance of "getting laid". During his leadership, he had challenged and contradicted the national party on several key issues, including the legalisation of cannabis, sale of organs and
polygamy. He would however reverse course on legalisation of cannabis and opened for giving the police more equipment to combat the issue. Velle stepped down as leader at the youth party's convention in April 2026 and was succeeded by his deputy, Lars Balstad Løvold.
Parliament He was elected as a regular representative for
Oslo at the
2025 election. He was also appointed as his party's spokesperson on education. ==Personal life==