Political party in Iceland
The Social Democratic Alliance (Icelandic : Samfylkingin - jafnaðarflokkur Íslands , lit. ' The Alliance – Iceland's Equality Party ' )[ a] social democratic political party in Iceland. The party is positioned on the centre-left of the political spectrum and their leader is Kristrún Frostadóttir .
The Social Democratic Alliance was founded in 2000 after a merger of four centre-left political parties (the National Awakening , the People's Alliance , the Social Democratic Party and the Women's List ) following a joint run by all parties in the 1999 Icelandic parliamentary election . The vision of the party was to unite the left-wing of Icelandic politics, which had been fractured since the 1930 split of the Social Democratic Party, and present a united bloc to oppose the ruling Independence Party .
In the snap 2009 Icelandic parliamentary election called in the aftermath of the Icelandic financial crisis , the Social Democratic Alliance under the leadership of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir emerged as the largest party and formed a coalition government with the Left-Green Movement , which was the country's first majority left-wing government. She was the country’s first female prime minister and the world’s first openly gay head of government.[ 4]
The party lost substantial support in the 2013 Icelandic parliamentary election , becoming the third largest in Alþingi and nearly losing all its representatives at the 2016 Icelandic parliamentary election , where it polled 5.7%.[ 5] 2017 Icelandic parliamentary election , the party won seven seats with 12.1% of the vote. However, the party lost one of their seats and received 9.9% of the vote in the 2021 Icelandic parliamentary election .
In 2014, it became the largest party in the Reykjavík City Council ,[ 6] Dagur B. Eggertsson became mayor.[ 7] Independence Party [ 8] [ 9]
History
The Social Democratic Alliance was born in the run-up to the 1999 Icelandic parliamentary election as a political alliance of the four left-wing political parties that had existed in Iceland up till then, namely the National Awakening , the People's Alliance , the Social Democratic Party and the Women's List .[ 10]
The parties then formally merged in May 2000 under the name The Alliance (Samfylkingin ). The merger was a deliberate attempt to unify the entire Icelandic centre-left into one political party capable of countering the centre-right Independence Party . However, the initial attempt failed as a group of Althing representatives rejected the new party's platform, which was inspired by that of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair 's centrist New Labour , and broke away before the merger to found the Left-Green Movement , a party based on more traditional democratic socialist values as well as Euroscepticism and green politics . The Icelandic Movement – Living Country merged into the party in March 2009.[ 11]
In February 2013, the official name of the party was changed to The Alliance – Social Democratic Party of Iceland (Icelandic : Samfylkingin – Jafnaðarmannaflokkur Íslands ).[ 12]
The chair of the party is Kristrún Frostadóttir , who was elected in 2022. Logi Már Einarsson was the chairperson from 2016-2022. Oddný G. Harðardóttir was elected as chair of the party to succeed Árni Páll Árnason in June 2016, but she resigned after the results the 2016 Icelandic parliamentary election . The youth wing of the Social Democratic Alliance is the Social Democratic Youth .
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