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Icelandic Movement – Living Country ( is, Íslandshreyfingin – lifandi land) was a green political party in Iceland founded by the reporter and environmentalist Ómar Ragnarsson and
Sigurlín Margrét Sigurðardóttir Sigurlín Margrét Sigurðardóttir (born 23 April 1964) is the first deaf person to be a member of Alþingi, on 1 October 2003 as a then-member of the Icelandic Liberal Party, serving for three months as a replacement for Gunnar Örlygsson whi ...
in 2007 to contest the 2007 parliamentary election. It failed to clear the election threshold and did not enter the
Alþingi The Alþingi (''general meeting'' in Icelandic, , anglicised as ' or ') is the supreme national parliament of Iceland. It is one of the oldest surviving parliaments in the world. The Althing was founded in 930 at ("thing fields" or "assembly ...
due to a new electoral law which raised the threshold to 5%; the party would have gotten three seats according to the old electoral law. At the Social Democratic Alliance's party congress in late March 2009, the Icelandic Movement became part of the SDA.


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