Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Left-Green Movement
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox political party | name = Left-Green Movement | native_name = Vinstrihreyfingin – grænt framboð | native_name_lang = is | abbreviation = VG | split = [[People's Alliance (Iceland)|People's Alliance]]<br>[[Women's List]] | logo = Logo of the Left-Green Movement.svg | logo_size = 150 | colorcode = {{party color|Left-Green Movement}} | chairperson = [[Svandís Svavarsdóttir]] | leader1_title = Vice-chairperson | leader1_name = [[Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson]] | leader2_title = [[Parliament|Chairperson of the parliamentary group]] | leader2_name = [[Orri Páll Jóhannsson]] | leader3_title = [[Political Party|General Secretary]] | leader3_name = [[Björg Eva Erlendsdóttir]] | founded = {{Start date|1999|2|6|df=yes}} | headquarters = Túngata 14 101, [[Reykjavík]] | youth_wing = Young Left-Greens | ideology = {{ubl|class=nowrap| |[[Eco-socialism]] |[[Democratic socialism]]{{refn|<ref name="Nordsieck">{{cite web|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|date=2017|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/iceland.html|title=Iceland|website=Parties and Elections in Europe|access-date=9 May 2020}}</ref><ref>[https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/id/ipa/05818.pdf Contemporary Far Left Parties in Europe From Marxism to the Mainstream? Luke March, 2008, P.4]</ref>}} |[[Feminism]]{{refn|<ref name="Nordsieck"/><ref name="grape">[http://www.grapevine.is/Features/ReadArticle/Vinstrihreyfingin-Graent-Frambod-The-Left-Green-Movement-Interviewed "The Reykjavík Grapevine Election Guide 2013"]. ''[[The Reykjavík Grapevine]]''. 5 April 2013. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914044454/http://www.grapevine.is/Features/ReadArticle/Vinstrihreyfingin-Graent-Frambod-The-Left-Green-Movement-Interviewed|date=14 September 2013}}. Retrieved 14 September 2013 </ref>}} |[[Pacifism]]{{refn|<ref name="Nordsieck"/><ref name="grape2">[https://grapevine.is/mag/articles/2013/04/08/vinstrihreyfingin-graent-frambod-the-left-green-movement-interviewed"]. ''[[The Reykjavík Grapevine]]''.</ref>}} }} | position = {{nowrap|[[Centre-left politics|Centre-left]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Milne|first=Richard|date=30 November 2017|url=https://www.ft.com/content/26f9c1e4-d5a2-11e7-8c9a-d9c0a5c8d5c9 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/26f9c1e4-d5a2-11e7-8c9a-d9c0a5c8d5c9 |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Iceland forms left-right coalition government|newspaper=Financial Times|access-date=30 November 2017}}</ref> to [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]]{{refn|<ref>Ćirić, Jelena (27 October 2017). [http://icelandreview.com/news/2017/10/27/icelandic-parliamentary-election-2017-party-overview "Icelandic Parliamentary Election 2017: Party Overview"]. ''Iceland Review''. Retrieved 28 December 2017.</ref><ref>Sigurðardóttir, Guðrún Helga (17 November 2017). [http://www.nordiclabourjournal.org/nyheter/news-2017/article.2017-11-16.7317863662 "Katrín Jakobsdóttir tipped as Iceland's new Prime Minister"]. ''Nordic Labour Journal''. Retrieved 28 December 2017.</ref>}}}} | colours = {{colour box|{{party color|Left-Green Movement}}|border=silver}} Green {{colour box|#F7302B|border=silver}} Red | affiliation1_title = Nordic affiliation | affiliation1 = [[Nordic Green Left Alliance]] | seats1_title = [[Althing]] | seats1 = {{composition bar|0|63|hex={{party color|Left-Green Movement}}}} | symbol = V | website = {{URL|vg.is}} | country = Iceland }} The '''Left-Green Movement''' ({{langx|is|Vinstrihreyfingin – grænt framboð}}, {{literally|Left Movement – Green Candidature}}), also known by its short-form name '''Vinstri græn''' ('''VG'''), is an [[Eco-socialism|eco-socialist]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Field |first=Luke |date=2021-09-29 |title=Iceland's centrist vote has resurged, but the left still has opportunities to govern and grow in a fragmented party system – RLS Brüssel |url=https://www.rosalux.eu/en/article/2012.iceland-s-centrist-vote-has-resurged-but-the-left-still-has-opportunities-to-govern.html |access-date=2022-07-11 |website=rosalux.eu |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-09-25 |title=Iceland Votes, With Its Dependence on Tourism Exposed |language=en |publisher=Bloomberg L.P. |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-25/iceland-votes-with-its-dependence-on-tourism-exposed-by-covid |access-date=2022-07-11}}</ref> [[List of political parties in Iceland|political party]] in [[Iceland]].<ref name="Nordsieck"/> Since the [[2024 Icelandic parliamentary election]], the party has had no members in the [[Althing]]. The party chairperson is [[Svandís Svavarsdóttir]], the vice chair is [[Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson]], and the general secretary is Björg Eva Erlendsdóttir. The Left-Green Movement is a member of the [[Nordic Green Left Alliance]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nordic-green-left-alliance.org/en/vg.htm|title=The Left-Green Movement of Iceland|work=Nordic Green Left Alliance|access-date=19 September 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218120750/http://www.nordic-green-left-alliance.org/en/vg.htm|archive-date=18 February 2010}}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)