Union of Liberals and Leftists

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The Union of Liberals and Leftists (Icelandic: Samtök frjálslyndra og vinstrimanna) was a left-wing political party in Iceland.

History

The party was established in 1970 by dissidents from the People's Alliance who had formerly been members of the National Preservation Party.^[1][2] Its members had contested the 1967 elections as independents, but failed to win a seat. It won five seats in the 1971 elections, and joined Ólafur Jóhannesson's first government,^[3] with two ministers. However, it was reduced to two seats in the 1974 elections, and failed to win a seat in the 1978 elections. It did not contest the 1979 elections.^[1]

Later President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson was a member of this party together with later Foreign Affairs minister Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson.

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