Politics of Iceland

Politics of Iceland

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The Alliance (Samfylkingin) is a political party in Iceland. It is social democratic in alignment and currently the biggest opposition party. It was born in the run-up to the parliamentary elections of 1999, following a merger of the four left-wing parties that had existed in Iceland up till then: the Social Democratic Party (Alþýðuflokkurinn), the People's Alliance (Alþýðubandalagið), the Womens's Alliance (Samtök um kvennalista) and the National Movement (Þjóðvaki). The merger was a deliberate attempt to unify the entire centre left of Icelandic politics into one party capable of countering the right-wing Independence Party. The attempt failed twice, 1999 and 2003, however, when a group of Alþingi representatives rejected the new party's platform – which was similar to that of Tony Blair's New Labour Party – and broke away before the merger to found the Left-Green Movement (Vinstrihreyfingin - grænt framboð), based on more traditional left values as well as environmental issues. The Alliance (Iceland) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ... Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms that refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially but not exclusively in the American sense of the word... The Peoples Alliance (Icelandic: Alþýðubandalagið) was an electoral alliance in Iceland from 1956 to 1968 and a political party from 1968 to 1998. ... The Womens List was an feminist party in Iceland that took part in national politics from 1983 to 1998. ... In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ... The Independence Party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn) is a center-right political party in Iceland. ... The Althing (Modern Icelandic Alþingi; Old Norse Alþing) is the national parliament: literally, the all-thing (or General Assembly) of Iceland. ... The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in Britain (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... The Left-Green Movement (Vinstrihreyfingin - grænt framboð) is a political party in Iceland. ...

The current chairman of the party is Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, a former mayor of Reykjavík. Ágúst Ólafur Ágústsson is vice chairman. Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir (born 31st of December 1954, Reykjavík, Iceland) is an Icelandic politician and the leader of the social democratic Alliance (Samfylkingin), the largest opposition party in the countrys parliament, the Althing. ... Reykjavík See also: Reykjavík, Manitoba in Canada Reykjavík (pronounced (♫) in Icelandic) is the capital of Iceland, its largest city and the worlds most northern capital city of any country. ...

External links

• Alliance (in Icelandic)
• The manifesto (in English)