Short version:
Secure housing for the people – not investors
- Housing for the people, not for investors
- Quality housing for everyone, regardless of income
- Implementation of stricter regulations to prevent speculation in the housing market.
- Imposing further restrictions on short-term rentals such as Airbnb.
- Introduction of rent control immediately.
- Building more rental housing in partnership with public institutions.
- Providing targeted mortgage interest relief to offset increased household interest costs.
- Continue allowing private savings to be used for home purchases by first-time buyers.
Health care is a cornerstone of society
- Protect public healthcare
- Reject further privatisation.
- Support a strong national hospital, Landspítali.
- Oppose retail alcohol sales and reject the privatisation of the State Alcohol and Tobacco Company (ÁTVR).
- Strengthen violence prevention programs for children and youths.
- Ensure access to medications in all local communities.
- Enhance primary healthcare services across the country.
- Provide financial incentives for doctors to work in rural areas.
- Facilitate the return of doctors and healthcare workers to Iceland with student loan annulment.
- Improve access to mental health services.
Education is the greatest social equaliser
- No Class Divisions in the School System
- Ensure by law and funding that all children have access to preschool immediately after parental leave.
- Equal access to education – free schooling at all levels.
- Value teachers for their contributions and increase support across all areas.
- Strengthen fundamental research and increase funding for universities.
- Lower interest rates on student loans and use the student loan system to encourage graduates to return to Iceland.
- Culture and the arts should be accessible to all groups in society; barriers preventing people from enjoying diverse cultural experiences must be removed.
Give families more quality time together
- All children should lead lives free from poverty, violence, racism, class divisions, and misogyny.
- Close the gap between parental leave and preschool access immediately.
- Increase child benefits and parental leave allowances.
- Eliminate reductions on the lowest parental leave payments.
- End waiting lists for all child services.
- Transform treatment options for children with complex needs.
We only have nature on loan
- Prohibit whaling.
- Prohibit blood mare farming.
- Protect Eyjafjörður, Öxarfjörður, and Seyðisfjörður from open-sea fish farming.
- Increase protected areas and phase out open-sea fish farming.
- Set aside one-third of Iceland’s land and waters as protected by 2030.
- Preserve the central highlands and the Westfjords highlands.
- Safeguard ecosystems through sustainable resource use.
- Reject privatisation of natural resources and infrastructure.
- Include a resource protection clause in the constitution.
- Ensure legal standing for environmental and animal protection organisations.
- Halt cryptocurrency mining in Iceland and direct energy to other better uses.
- Limit wind turbines to previously disturbed areas and ensure they remain in public ownership.
Farmers are the stewards of the land
- A new support system must work effectively for farmers.
- Increase support for local agriculture.
- Provide electricity discounts for vegetable farmers.
- Strengthen farmers’ ability to build livelihoods through conservation and land restoration.
- Continue the major initiative to boost Icelandic grain production.
- Promote and strengthen all local food production.
The city is nothing without the countryside
- Improve transportation across the country and increase funding for road construction.
- Fund the tunnel project plan.
- Ensure school buses run on paved roads and eliminate single-lane bridges on the Ring Road.
- Guarantee energy security and strengthen the country’s distribution network in harmony with communities and nature.
- Protect households from excessive increases in electricity prices.
- Implement legislation for public transportation.
- Accelerate the development of the Borgarlína.
Radical but realistic actions against climate change
- Those who pollute must pay – the pollution compensation principle must apply to all.
- Enshrine into law Iceland’s goal of a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
- Make greenwashing punishable by law.
- Adopt a comprehensive climate policy.
- Significantly increase funding for climate action and accelerate its implementation.
- End the use of fossil fuels by 2040 through energy transition.
Women’s rights in focus
- Violence against women is a public health threat and must be eradicated by all available means.
- Eliminate gender inequality and misogyny.
- Fight against the erosion of rights for women and transgender people.
- Increase the value of women’s work and eliminate the gender pay gap.
- Ensure equal distribution of parental leave.
- Survivors of sexual crimes should have legal standing as parties in their cases.
- The state should be liable for damages to victims if errors are made in investigations or if there are undue delays.
- Make it easier for victims of domestic violence to obtain restraining orders, and impose fines for violations of them.
- Make digital sexual crimes punishable by law.
- Ensure a humane path out of prostitution and human trafficking
Diversity enriches all of the society
- Welcome immigrants with open arms and ensure they have the opportunity to thrive as full participants in society.
- No detention centres for people fleeing conflict.
- The only way forward in immigration matters is through information and dialogue.
- Provide special attention and care to marginalised groups.
- Ensure free Icelandic language classes for all immigrants.
Wars ends with peace, not battles
- Condemn all war and violence.
- Eradicate inhumane policies against people fleeing conflict.
- Accelerate the processing of asylum applications and increase professionalism.
- Review and reform the procedures and practices of the Directorate of Immigration from the ground up.
- Work against all forms of weaponry in Icelandic society.
- Ensure job security for the police.
- Increase visible policing and public trust in law enforcement through actions.
- Demand an immediate ceasefire and Free Palestine.
- Israeli authorities must be held accountable for war crimes and genocide in Gaza.
- Stop arms shipments to Israel and implement international trade sanctions.