Icelandic Movement - Living Land
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Icelandic Movement – Living Country was a green
political party in Iceland
founded by the reporter and environmentalist Ómar Ragnarsson
and Sigurlín Margrét Sigurðardóttir
on 23 March 2007http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=28304&ew_0_a_id=271732 to contest the 2007 parliamentary election
. It failed to clear the election threshold
and did not enter the Alþingi due to new law touching minimum percent of political parties who were raised to 5% though the party would have got three parliamentarians according to the older laws. At the Social Democratic Alliance's party congress in late March 2009, the Icelandic Movement became part of the SDA.
Green politics
Green politics is a political ideology that aims for the creation of an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, social liberalism, and grassroots democracy...
political party in Iceland
Iceland
Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...
founded by the reporter and environmentalist Ómar Ragnarsson
Ómar Ragnarsson
Ómar Ragnarsson is an Icelandic politician and environmentalist as well as a former entertainer and news reporter. He is the founder and chairman of the environmentalist party Iceland's Movement – Living Land which took part in the 2007 parliamentary elections.Ómar is the father of media...
and Sigurlín Margrét Sigurðardóttir
Sigurlín Margrét Sigurðardóttir
Sigurlín Margrét Sigurðardóttir is the first deaf person to be a member of Alþingi, on October 1, 2003 as a then member of the Icelandic Liberal Party, serving for 3 months as a replacement for Gunnar Örlygsson while he served a sentence for fishery violations.In 2007 she left the Liberal Party...
on 23 March 2007http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=28304&ew_0_a_id=271732 to contest the 2007 parliamentary election
Icelandic parliamentary election, 2007
The 2007 Icelandic general elections were held on 12 May 2007. In this election, the public elected 63 members of parliament using proportional representation from six constituencies to the Alþingi...
. It failed to clear the election threshold
Election threshold
In party-list proportional representation systems, an election threshold is a clause that stipulates that a party must receive a minimum percentage of votes, either nationally or within a particular district, to obtain any seats in the parliament...
and did not enter the Alþingi due to new law touching minimum percent of political parties who were raised to 5% though the party would have got three parliamentarians according to the older laws. At the Social Democratic Alliance's party congress in late March 2009, the Icelandic Movement became part of the SDA.
External links
- Iceland's Movement – Living Country Official site