If we decide to obliterate ourselves , or if something else will do the job for us , nobody will miss us . Nope we don ' t matter . <| sep |> You ' re clearly wrong here . It ' s okay . It happens . Use it as an opportunity to learn something new . <| sep |> can confirm , my money works for Nintendo , and he likes uncle <| sep |> On civil rights issues the parties tend to reach a consensus quickly and are very similar in that regard . The gay marriage act was for instance passed in 2010 with overwhelming parliamentary support , no MP voted against it and only a few abstained . The Pirates and the LeftGreens are typically a bit more socially liberal than the other parties , but there aren ' t really any conservative parties in Iceland to speak of . Parties tend to form mostly based on economic interests in Iceland . We have periods of political unrest when a lot of new parties pop up , we had a period like that in the 80 ' s and we are going through one right now . But throughout history , Iceland has tended towards a 4 party system 1 The Independence party . SjlfstisflokkurinnThis party has historically been the biggest in Iceland . It is a bigtent , rightwing party with broad support but gets its core followers from the ranks of fishermen and wealthy people in urban areas . Usually they get 3040 % of the vote . They tend to be fiscally conservative , they want low taxes and spending cuts and they don ' t want to join the EU . A decent , if flawed , international comparison would be the UK Tories or the old preReagan US Republican party , not necessarily in terms of ideology but rather in terms of voter demographics . 2 The Progressive party . FramsknarflokkurinnThis is a politically moderate party , on both social and economic issues , that has historically catered to rural voters . They strongly support agricultural subsidies and are strongly opposed to EU membership . They also want to keep the Reykjavik airport open , which rural voters love but Reykjavik residents don ' t like as much . They usually get 1525 % of the vote . 3 A CenterLeft party . Currently SamfylkinginThere tends to be a social democratic party in Iceland . They have gone under more than one name historically . Before 2000 they were known as the People ' s Party but today they are known as the SocialDemocratic Alliance . They are proEU . They tend to support the welfare state more so than the previous 2 parties , but are otherwise economically liberal . They ' re basically a typical socialdemocratic party . They get between 1025 % of the vote . In the early 2000 ' s they drew a lot of support from people further on the leftwing but seem to have lost it in the last election . 4 A leftwing party . Currently Vinstrihreyfingin Grnt FramboFrom 1930 to 1968 we had a Socialist party go under several names . It was your typical MarxLeninist , European communist party , antiNATO and openly proSoviet . After the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia they cut ties with Moscow and became a democratic socialist party . They have since evolved into a feminist , green , pacifist socialdemocratic party . They currently call themselves the LeftGreen movement . Historically they have gotten about 1520 % of the vote . Then you have the recent Pirate party . They are first and foremost a systemic reformist party without a specific ideology , but they tend to hold very liberal views . And then you have Bright Future and Revival , centrist and proEU parties that are really close ideologically and politically . They ' ve made a kind of alliance after the election . These three new parties combined got roughly 30 % of the votes in the last elections , which is unprecedented for such relatively new parties .