Alliance

The Social Democratic Alliance is a social-democratic political party in Iceland. It is centre-left in alignment and currently forms part of a coalition government along with the Left-Green Movement. It became the largest party in the Icelandic parliament after the 2009 Icelandic election. The current Prime Minister of Iceland, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, is the leader of the Social Democratic Alliance. The Social Democratic Alliance was born in the run-up to the parliamentary elections of 1999 as an alliance of the four left-wing parties that had existed in Iceland up till then:... the Social Democratic Party , the People's Alliance , the Women's Alliance and the National Movement . The parties then formally merged in May 2000. The merger was a deliberate attempt to unify the entire Icelandic centre-left into one political party capable of countering the centre-right Independence Party.
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