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Freedom Party (Iceland)

Icelandic political party

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ65336421 ↗
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The Freedom Party (Icelandic: Frelsisflokkurinn) was a right-wing populist political party in Iceland. The party was founded in June 2017 and participated in the 2018 city council elections in Reykjavík where it received 147 votes, or about 0.24% of total votes. Since 2023, the party became inactive, and a few posts were made on the party's Facebook page in support of the Centre Party.

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The public source identifies “Freedom Party (Iceland)” as icelandic political party. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Freedom, Party and Iceland.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2018, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Freedom, Party and Iceland providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Freedom Party (Iceland)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.