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Bright Future (Iceland)
Bright Future () is a liberal political party in Iceland founded in 2012. The party was a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) party and had links to the ALDE Group in the European Parliament,The ReykjavÃk Grapevine Election Guide 2013 , issue 4, 5 April 2013, p. 20. although it resigned its membership of ALDE in October 2019. History The party was founded on 4 February 2012. Before the 2013 general election, it included two Memb ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Best Party
The Best Party () was an Icelandic political party founded by Jón Gnarr on 16 November 2009. The party contested the 2010 city council election in ReykjavÃk and won a plurality on the ReykjavÃk City Council, receiving 34.7% of the vote, defeating the Independence Party which received 33.6%. It was an observer member of the International Pirate Party, but not associated with the Pirate Party Iceland. Gnarr announced that the party was to be dissolved after he stepped down as mayor after the upcoming local elections in May 2014. Many of the Best Party's members joined Bright Future, while Gnarr himself stopped political participation. The founder and chairman of the party was the former Mayor of ReykjavÃk Jón Gnarr. The party was founded several months after the Icelandic parliamentary election in 2009, and was closely related to the national Bright Future party, led by MP and Best Party Vice President Heiða KristÃn Helgadóttir. The party's initial success is se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2012 Establishments In Iceland
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Political Parties Established In 2012
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Nichole Leigh Mosty
Nichole Leigh Mosty (born 19 October 1972) is an American-born Icelandic politician from Bright Future who served in the Parliament of Iceland. Early life Mosty was born in Three Rivers, Michigan. Education Mosty holds a degree from the University of Iceland. Mosty moved from the United States to Iceland in 1999. Career She was elected in the 2016 parliamentary election for ReykjavÃk South. She was a candidate for ReykjavÃk City Council The ReykjavÃk City Council ( Icelandic: ''Borgarstjórn ReykjavÃkur'') is the local council for ReykjavÃk, the capital and largest city of Iceland. It is composed of 23 members elected by proportional representation for a 4-year term The Cou ... in 2018. In May 2017, while making a speech for the first time at the parliamentary discussions called Eldhúsdagsumræður in Iceland, she teared up recounting her experience as an immigrant. She mentioned her relocation to Iceland sixteen years earlier and starting as a cleaner, as " e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Björt Ólafsdóttir
Björt Ólafsdóttir is an Icelandic politician who represented Bright Future in the Althing 2013-17 and is its current chairperson. She served as the Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources of Iceland from January to November 2017. Bright Future was formed to contest the 2013 Icelandic parliamentary election, which is when Björt entered the Althing as one of the new party's six MPs. She was elected chairperson of her party on 25 November 2017, after the previous chair Óttarr Proppé resigned following the results of the 2017 election, in which Bright Future lost every seat it held. In March 2015 she joined the protest #FreeTheNipple on Twitter, which was directed against censorship on women's bodies and sexism. She joined the protest by posting a picture of her naked left breast. Ministerial career Following parliamentary elections in 2016, a new coalition government with Björt as Minister of Environment was formed in January 2017 comprising the Independence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Óttarr Proppé
Óttarr Olaf Proppé (born 7 November 1968) is a former Icelandic politician. He is a musician, actor, former ReykjavÃk City Councilor (Best Party 2010-2014) and former Member of Parliament ( Bright Future 2013-2017). Óttarr was elected chairman of the party in 2015. He was a member of the rock band HAM in the years 1988–1994, as well as the lead singer of the rock-cabaret band Dr. Spock. He also starred in several movies, including '' Sódóma ReykjavÃk'' from 1992, and '' Nói Albinói'' and '' Angels of the Universe'' from 2000. He made a guest appearance with the band Pollapönk during the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Denmark, singing "No Prejudice" ending up 8th in the semi-final with 61 points, resulting in them progressing to the final, finishing in 15th with 58 points, which was Iceland's best result since 2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2016 Icelandic Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 29 October 2016. They were due to be held on or before 27 April 2017, but following the 2016 Icelandic anti-government protests, the ruling coalition announced that early elections would be held "in autumn". The Independence Party emerged as the largest in the Althing, winning 21 of the 63 seats; the Progressive Party, which had won the most seats in 2013, lost more than half its seats as it was overtaken by the Left-Green Movement and the Pirate Party. Of the 63 elected MPs, 30 were female, giving Iceland the highest proportion of female MPs in Europe.Iceland elections leave ruling centre-right party in driving seat The Guardian, 30 October 2016 A new coalition was formed on 10 Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Euro
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Accession Of Iceland To The European Union
Accession refers to the general idea of joining or adding to. It may also refer to: * Accession (property law) * Accession, the act of joining a treaty by a party that did not take part in its negotiations; see Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties#Signature, ratification and accession ** Ratification ** EU Accession * Accession to the throne; not to be confused with the later ceremony of Coronation ** Enthronement ** Accession day, when an heir becomes monarch, and its anniversary * Accession to elected office; inauguration * Accession number (other) ** Accession number (cultural property), a catalogue number assigned to an object when it becomes part of a library or museum collection ** Accession number (bioinformatics), a unique identifier given to a biological polymer sequence (DNA, protein) when it is submitted to a sequence database * Accession (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'') * Accession Records, a record label created by Adrian Hates * Instrument of Acces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Viðreisn
Viðreisn (), officially known in English as the Liberal Reform Party, is a Liberalism, liberal political party political parties in Iceland, in Iceland positioned on the Centrism, centre to Centre-right politics, centre-right of the political spectrum. The party was founded on 24 May 2016 but it had existed as a political network since June 2014. It split from the Independence Party (Iceland), Independence Party, mainly over discontent with its decision to not hold a Icelandic European Union membership referendum, referendum on joining the European Union and the lack of support for free trade. The party supports Iceland–European Union relations, Icelandic EU membership, and reform of Agricultural subsidy, agricultural subsidies and protective Excise, excise taxes on foreign produce. Viðreisn is in favor of a publicly financed welfare state. It supports Fixed exchange rate system, pegging the Icelandic króna, króna to another currency, such as the euro, through a currency boar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2018 Icelandic Municipal Elections
Municipal elections took place in Iceland on 26 May 2018. 55 of the 72 municipal councils in the country were elected using open list PR. The rural municipality Tjörneshreppur did not hold an election as only one list was presented, whose candidates were thereby automatically elected. No list was presented in 16 municipalities. Municipal councils in those municipalities were elected using a form of plurality block voting were voters write in the names of their preferred candidates. Two of the municipal councils were for new municipalities created after mergers. Results References {{iceland-election-stub 2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ... 2018 elections in Europe 2018 in Iceland May 2018 in Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
