Flokkur fólksins

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Flokkur fólksins
People's Party
Party leader Inga Sæland
founding 2016
Headquarters Reykjavík
Alignment Populism , disability rights , democratic socialism , EU skepticism
Colours) pink
Parliament seats
2/63
Althing
Website flokkurfolksins.is

Flokkur fólksins (German about People's Party or Party of People / People , party letter F ) is a political party in Iceland .

history

The party was founded in 2016. In its statutes , the party's aim is to fight for the victims of "injustice, discrimination, lawlessness and poverty". She is particularly committed to the rights of the disabled, children and the elderly. The party was founded by the visually impaired Inga Sæland .

In the 2016 general election , the party received 3.5 percent of the vote. So she failed at the five percent hurdle set for entry into the national parliament Althing . Due to its result, however, it was entitled to a state contribution to its financing , which in Iceland is due to those parties that received at least 2.5 percent of the vote in the general election.

In the early parliamentary election on October 28, 2017 , the party received 6.88% of the vote and was able to move into the Althing with four seats. As a result of the Klaustur affair at the end of November 2018, the two parliamentarians Karl Gauti Hjaltason and Ólafur Ísleifsson were excluded from the party, but had announced that they would remain in the Althing as non- party. A little later they switched to the Center Party . Flokkur fólksins now has two representatives in the Althing, Inga Sæland and Guðmundur Ingi Kristinsson .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Samþykktir ( Icelandic ) Flokkur fólksins. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
  2. General Elections 2016 in Iceland ( English ) In: Iceland Monitor . October 30, 2016. Retrieved February 5, 2017.
  3. 40 milljónir til Flokks fólksins? ( Icelandic ) In: mbl.is . Morgunblaðið . October 30, 2016. Retrieved February 5, 2017.
  4. Kosningavakan 2017 ( Icelandic ) In: ruv.is . Ríkisútvarpið . October 29, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
  5. Laurence Peter: Iceland scandal over MPs' crude and sexist bar talk ( English ) In: BBC News . December 3, 2018. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
  6. Kristín Ólafsdóttir: Karl Gauti og Ólafur gengnir til liðs við Miðflokkinn ( Icelandic ) In: visir.is . February 22, 2019. Accessed June 11, 2020.