Social Democratic Alliance
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Social Democratic Alliance
Samfylkingin |
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| Chairperson | Logi Már Einarsson |
| Vice-chairperson | Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir |
| Chairperson of the board | Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir |
| Secretary of the board | Óskar Steinn Ómarsson |
| Chairperson of the parliamentary group | Oddný Harðardóttir |
| Founded | 5 May 2000 |
| Merger of | |
| Headquarters | Hallveigarstígur 1, 101 Reykjavík |
| Youth wing | Social Democratic Youth |
| Ideology |
Social democracy, Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| European affiliation | Party of European Socialists (Associate) |
| International affiliation | Socialist International |
| Nordic affiliation | SAMAK |
| Colours | Red, Orange |
| Seats in the Althing |
3 / 63
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| Website | |
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The Social Democratic Alliance (Icelandic: Samfylkingin-Jafnaðarmannaflokkur Íslands) is a social-democraticpolitical party in Iceland. It is centre-left in alignment. It became the largest party in the Icelandic parliament after the 2009 Icelandic election, forming a coalition government along with the Left-Green Movement, until returning to opposition status after the 2013 Icelandic election. In the 2016 election it got 3 seats in the parliament.
The Social Democratic Alliance was born in the run-up to the parliamentary elections of 1999 as an alliance of the four left-wing parties that had existed in Iceland up till then: the Social Democratic Party, the People's Alliance, the Women's List and National Awakening. 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. The initial attempt failed however as a group of Alþingi representatives rejected the new party's platform – which was inspired by that of Tony Blair's New Labour – and broke away before the merger to found the Left-Green Movement, based on more traditional democratic socialist values as well as green politics and euroscepticism. The Icelandic Movement – Living Country merged into the party in March 2009. In February 2013 the official name of the party was changed to "The Alliance – Social Democratic Party of Iceland" (Samfylkingin – Jafnaðarmannaflokkur Íslands).
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