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Right-Green People's Party Hægri Grænir flokkur fólksins | |
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| Chairperson | Helgi Helgason |
| Founder | Sveinbirni Árnasyni Lúðvíki Lúðvíkssyni Guðmundur Franklín Jónsson |
| Founded | June 17, 2010 (2010-06-17) |
| Dissolved | February 27, 2016 (2016-02-27) |
| Merged into | Icelandic National Front |
| Headquarters | Reykjavík |
| Ideology | Euroscepticism Green conservatism Right-libertarianism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| Colours | Green |
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TheRight-Green People's Party (Icelandic:Hægri grænir, flokkur fólksins) was aright-wing political party inIceland founded on 17 June 2010.[1]
On 27 February 2016, the party was disbanded joined theIcelandic National Front, aright-wing populist party.[2]
The Right-Green party identified withclassical liberal andEurosceptic policy within aright-libertarian context and considered its platform fairly similar to that of former U.S. presidential candidateRon Paul.[3]
The party wanted to abolish governmental monopolies likeMjólkursamsalan (MS) andÁTVR, the State Alcohol & Tobacco Company.[4] It also rejected the idea of Iceland joining theEuropean Union, although it wished to put the issue to a referendum.[3][4] The Right-Green party rolled out plans to replace theIcelandic króna while rejecting theeuro, choosing instead to introduce a new currency, theRíkisdalur (named after Iceland's historical currency, prior to the króna), which would be pegged to theUS dollar.
The party advocated the introduction of a 20%flat tax, halt further increases in spending and freeze public hiring for at least four years. It also supported the immediate abolition of customs duties, import tariffs and excise taxes. It also had anature conservation agenda and called for better protection of Icelandic nature.
The name Right Greens (Hægri grænir) was a pun on theLeft Green Movement, which is known as the Left Greens (Vinstri græn).
| Election | No. of overall votes | % of overall vote | No. of overall seats won | +/– | Position |
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| 2013 |  3,262 | 1.7 | 0 / 63 | 0 | 10th |
| Leader | From | To |
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| Guðmundur Franklín Jónsson | 17 June 2010 | 2013 |
| Helgi Helgason | 2014 | 27 feb 2016 |
