Landsbyggðarflokkurinn

Landsbyggðarflokkurinn Provincial Party
Party leader	Ylfa Mist Helgadóttir
founding	February 23, 2013
Headquarters	Reykjavík
Colours)	purple

Landsbyggðarflokkurinn ( German : Provincial Party or literally party of the rural area ) was a small party in Iceland that the parliamentary election in 2013 with the party letters M took.

history

The party was founded on February 23, 2013. When it first ran for parliamentary elections on April 27, 2013 , the party received 0.17 percent of the vote and thus did not receive a seat in the national parliament Althing . The party has not appeared in the media since the beginning of 2014. She did not run for the general election in Iceland in 2016 .

program

In its program , the party advocated the following, among other things:

• Possibilities for the liberalization of agriculture are to be examined
• local autonomy is to be increased
• Environmentally friendly fishing should be promoted
• more direct democracy : major political decisions should generally be made in a referendum

See also

• List of political parties in Iceland
• Icelandic political system

Web links

• Official website ( Memento of December 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Landsbyggðarflokkurinn stofnaður í dag Morgunblaðið , February 23, 2013 (Icelandic)
2. ↑ Result of the parliamentary elections in Iceland 2013: Útreikningar á úthlutun þingsæta samkvæmt úrslitum kosninga til Alþingis April 27, 2013 ( Icelandic , PDF) Landskjörstjórn. Accessed December 31, 2016.
3. ↑ Framboðslistar við alþingiskosningarnar October 29, 2016 ( Icelandic ) Innanríkisráðuneytið (Icelandic Ministry of the Interior). October 19, 2016. Accessed December 31, 2016.