National Preservation Party (Icelandic: Þjóðvarnarflokkurinn) a political party in Iceland. Founded and supported on March 15, 1953 by the same group that edited the weekly paper Free Nation (Frjáls Þjóð). The party was against Icelandic membership in NATO and demanded a referendum. The party was also against the presence of U.S. military bases in Iceland. The party supported mixed economy of both private and public participation. The party gained two seats (Gils Guðmundsson and Bergur Sigurbjörnsson were the MPs of the party) in the Icelandic Pairlament in the 1953 elections but later lost those seats in 1956. Representatives of the party also gained presence in the student council of the University of Iceland, the Akureyri local government and in the city council of Reykjavík. A political party is an organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ... March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Free Nation (Icelandic: Frjáls Þjóð) was a weekly newspaper published in Reykjavík, Iceland from 1952-1967. ... NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation[1] (NATO), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for collective security established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, DC, on 4 April 1949. ... United States is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve this article to the highest of standards. ... Bergur Sigurbjörnsson (born May 20, 1917 died July 28, 2005) Educated in Buisness in University of Iceland and in Economics in Stockholm University. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of Iceland (Háskóli Íslands) is a state university, founded in 1911. ... Nickname: Höfuðstaður Norðurlands (Capital of North Iceland) Location in Iceland Coordinates: Constituency Northeast Area    - City 125 km²  (48. ... For the town in Canada see Reykjavik, Manitoba Location in Iceland Coordinates: Constituency Reykjavík North Reykjavík South Area    - City 274. ...

In the 1963 the National Preservation Party had candidates on the lists of the People's Alliance. Gils Guðmundsson gained a seat in the pairlament which he held until 1979. The other former member of parliament, Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, did not succced in wining back his seat, but served twice in the parliament during the electorial period of 1963-1967 in the as a replacer of other MPs. 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... The Peoples Alliance (Icelandic: Alþýðubandalagið) was an electoral alliance in Iceland from 1956 to 1968 and a political party from 1968 to 1998. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...