Alþýðufylkingin
Alþýðufylkingin Popular Front of Iceland |
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Party leader | Þorvaldur Þorvaldsson |
Deputy Chairman | Vésteinn Valgarðsson |
founding | February 18, 2013 |
Headquarters | Reykjavík |
Alignment |
Socialism , ecologism , anti-capitalism , pacifism , Euroscepticism |
Colours) | red |
Website | althydufylkingin.blogspot.de |
The Alþýðufylkingin ( German : Popular Front of Iceland , party letter R ) is a small party in Iceland .
history
The party was founded on February 18, 2013 in Reykjavík . Þorvaldur Þorvaldsson became party chairman .
When she ran for the 2013 parliamentary election for the first time , the party received about 0.1 percent of the vote and thus did not receive a seat in the national parliament Althing . Even in the early elections in 2016 and 2017 , the party was unable to move into the Althing with 0.3 percent (2016) and 0.19 percent (2017), respectively.
program
In its program , the party advocates, among other things:
- Iceland will neither the EU to join a member of NATO be
- the economy will in large parts socialized be
- Equality as a basic principle: Preventing discrimination on the basis of origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, place of residence or any other social status
- a “resurrection” of the health system, among other things by strengthening basic services
- the country's natural resources should be declared national property and should not be sold or pledged
- all profits from natural resources should be used to increase the living standards of the population
- a tax reform: all taxes that the public has to pay are to be reduced and, in return, taxes on corporate profits are to be increased
See also
Web links
- Official Website (Icelandic)
Individual evidence
- ↑ General Elections 2016 in Iceland ( English ) In: Iceland Monitor . October 30, 2016. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
- ↑ Kosningavakan 2017 ( Icelandic ) In: ruv.is . Ríkisútvarpið . October 29, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
- ↑ Program of the People's Front of Iceland (in English) ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Alþýðufylkingin (English)