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Union of Liberals and Leftists

Samtök frjálslyndra og vinstrimanna
Union of Liberals and Leftists Samtök frjálslyndra og vinstrimanna
Founder	Hannibal Valdimarsson; Björn Jónsson
Founded	November 1969
Dissolved	1978
Split from	National Preservation Party (People's Alliance)
Headquarters	Reykjavík
Ideology	Social liberalism
Political position	Centre to centre-left
	Politics of Iceland; Political parties; Elections;

The Union of Liberals and Leftists (Icelandic: Samtök frjálslyndra og vinstrimanna) was a social-liberal^[1] political party in Iceland.

History

The party was established in 1969 by dissidents from the People's Alliance who had formerly been members of the National Preservation Party.^[2]^[3] Its members had contested the 1967 elections as independents, but failed to win a seat. It won five seats in the 1971 elections, and joined Ólafur Jóhannesson's first government,^[4] with two ministers. However, it was reduced to two seats in the 1974 elections, and failed to win a seat in the 1978 elections. It did not contest the 1979 elections.^[2]

Later President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson was a member of this party together with later Foreign Affairs minister Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson.

^ Agust Thor Arnason (2006). "The European Union Seen From the Top – the View of an Inside-Outsider". In Joakim Nergelius (ed.). Nordic And Other European Constitutional Traditions. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 31. ISBN 90-04-15171-0.
^ ^a ^b Vincent E McHale (1983) Political parties of Europe, Greenwood Press, p527 ISBN 0-313-23804-9
^ McHale, p523
^ McHale, p530