Alliance (Iceland)

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.

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Political party - Iceland - Social democratic - 1999 - Left-wing - Social Democratic Party - People's Alliance - Womens's Alliance - National Movement - Right-wing - Independence Party - Alþingi - Tony Blair's - New Labour Party - Left-Green Movement

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The current chairman of the party is Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, a former mayor of Reykjavik.

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Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir - Reykjavik

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