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19-593: On 27 February 2016, the Right-Green People's Party was disbanded and merged into the party. On 3 March 2016, the National Front reached out to controversial Independence Party member Ásmund Friðriksson , asking him to join the party. On 15 August 2016, the party organized a protest against revisions to Iceland's immigration laws at Austurvöllur square in front of the Parliament building. They participated in

38-453: A Swiss-style referendum system . New mosques , burqas , female genital mutilation and Islamic schools are opposed by the party, although the party claims that the religious freedom as stated in the Icelandic constitution is not opposed. Christianity and Ásatrú are supported by the party. The founder and first chairman of the party, Helgi Helgason , said that his opposition to Islam

57-666: A nature conservation agenda and called for better protection of Icelandic nature. The name Right Greens ( Hægri grænir ) was a pun on the Left Green Movement , which is known as the Left Greens ( Vinstri græn ). Danish rigsdaler The rigsdaler was the name of several currencies used in Denmark until 1875. The similarly named Reichsthaler , riksdaler and rijksdaalder were used in Germany and Austria-Hungary , Sweden and

76-551: A right-libertarian context and considered its platform fairly similar to that of former U.S. presidential candidate Ron Paul . The party wanted to abolish governmental monopolies like Mjólkursamsalan (MS) and ÁTVR , the State Alcohol & Tobacco Company. It also rejected the idea of Iceland joining the European Union , although it wished to put the issue to a referendum. The Right-Green party rolled out plans to replace

95-556: Is inspired by Ayaan Hirsi Ali . Right-Green People%27s Party The Right-Green People's Party ( Icelandic : Hægri grænir, flokkur fólksins ) was a right-wing political party in Iceland founded on 17 June 2010. On 27 February 2016, the party was disbanded joined the Icelandic National Front , a right-wing populist party. The Right-Green party identified with classical liberal and Eurosceptic policy within

114-567: Is wholly opposed to multiculturalism and wants Iceland out of the Schengen Area . They are in favour of debt adjustment . The party also wishes to introduce a new currency in Iceland that is linked to the United States dollar and it wants to eliminate indexation . Furthermore, they want to focus on the interests of the elderly and disabled. Other proposals from the party program include introducing

133-459: The 2016 parliamentary election , only running candidates in the South and Northwest constituencies after failing to obtain ballot access for the remaining four; in part due to two of their senior members, Gústaf Níelsson and Gunnlaugur Ingvarsson, defecting shortly before the election and taking the lists of signatures for the two Reykjavík constituencies with them. The party was due to take part in

152-713: The 2017 election and had planned on running in the three constituencies in the capital area and the South , but withdrew all its lists after false signatures had been discovered on two of them. In August 2017, Gústaf Níelsson and Gunnlaugur Ingvarssons launched a new party Frelsisfokkurinn (the Freedom Party) , which attracted members from the Icelandic National Front, although Níelsson shortly thereafter quit politics and moved to Spain. The Icelandic National Front aims to defend Iceland's sovereignty and independence and national culture, language and customs. The party

171-543: The Hamburg Bank equated 9 1 ⁄ 4 reichsthalers specie to a Cologne Mark of fine silver, hence 25.28 g silver in a rigsdaler specie . Following the Danish state bankruptcy of 1813 , Denmark dropped out of the currency system above, in favor of a new rigsbankdaler reduced to 1 ⁄ 2 a Rigsdaler specie . The new rigsbankdaler was exchanged for 6 rigsdaler courant in banknotes which were severely devalued during

190-566: The Icelandic króna while rejecting the euro , choosing instead to introduce a new currency, the Ríkisdalur (named after Iceland's historical currency, prior to the króna), which would be pegged to the US 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

209-534: The Napoleonic Wars . 96 skilling made one rigsbankdaler and 192 skilling made one Rigsdaler specie of 25.28 g fine silver. In 1854 the rigsdaler species name disappeared and the names rigsbankdaler and rigsbank skilling became rigsdaler and skilling rigsmønt . Thus, there were 96 skilling rigsmønt to the rigsdaler. In 1873, Denmark and Sweden formed the Scandinavian Monetary Union and

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228-598: The Netherlands , respectively. These currencies were often anglicized as rix-dollar or rixdollar . Several different currency systems have been used by Denmark from the 16th to 19th centuries. The krone (lit. "crown") first emerged in 1513 as a unit of account worth 8 marks. The more generally used currency system until 1813, however, was the Danish rigsdaler worth 1 1 ⁄ 2 krone (or schlecht daler ), 6 marks , or 96 skilling . The Danish rigsdaler used in

247-598: The 18th century was a common system shared with the silver reichsthalers of Norway , Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein . The currency system consisted of the Reichsthaler specie ( Rigsdaler specie ) worth 120 skillings in Denmark and Norway, and the lower-valued Rigsdaler courant worth 4 ⁄ 5 th of specie or 96 skillings (both units worth 60 and 48 schellingen , respectively, in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein). In 1770

266-528: The Schilling Courant, of which there were 60 to the Speciethaler , equal to the rigsdaler species. These denominations were 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 , 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 , 5, 10 and 30 Schilling Courant. The renaming of the currency units in 1854 lead to the issuing of coins for 1 ⁄ 2 , 1, 4 and 16 skilling rigsmønt, 1 and 2 rigsdaler. Gold "d'or" coins continued to be issued (see above). In 1713,

285-538: The government introduced notes for 1, 2 and 3 mark, 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 rigsdaler. The Copenhagen Assignation, Exchange and Loans Bank issued notes between 1737 and 1804 for 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 100 rigsdaler courant. Between 1791 and 1797, the Danish-Norwegian Specie Bank issued notes for 4, 8, 20, 40 and 80 rigsdaler specie. The treasury issued notes for 2 and 20 rigsdaler courant in 1808, followed by 8, 12 and 24 skilling notes in 1809-1810. In 1813,

304-402: The legend "rigsbanktegn" ("rigsbank token") were issued in denominations of 2, 3, 4, 6, 12 and 16 skilling. From 1818, 1, 2 and 32 rigsbank skilling coins were issued, with 1 rigsdaler species from 1820. From 1826, gold coins were issued denominated in "Frederiks d'Or" or "Christians d'Or" (depending on the name of the ruling king). The "d'or" was nominally worth 10 rigsdaler, although the currency

323-451: The rigsdaler was replaced by the Danish krone on 1 January 1875. An equal valued krone/krona of the monetary union replaced the three currencies at the rate of 1 krone/krona = 1 ⁄ 2 Danish rigsdaler = 1 ⁄ 4 Norwegian speciedaler = 1 Swedish riksdaler . Because of this reform, where two Danish kroner was then of equal worth to the Danish daler, the "tokrone" coins got the common name of "daler" as they were functionally

342-405: The same (the real daler got retired). It, however, became an increasingly-uncommon name since the "tokrone" coin did not exist from 1959 to 1993. In the late 18th century, coins were issued in denominations of 1 ⁄ 2 , 1, 2, 4, 8, 24 and 32 skilling, 1 ⁄ 15 , 1 ⁄ 4 , 1 ⁄ 3 , 1 ⁄ 2 and 1 rigsdaler specie. Between 1813 and 1815, copper coins bearing

361-427: Was on a silver standard. In 1838, 1 ⁄ 2 rigsbank skilling coins were introduced. Between 1840 and 1843, a new coinage was introduced, consisting of 1 ⁄ 5 , 1 ⁄ 2 , 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 16 and 32 rigsbank skilling, 1 rigsbankdaler and 1 rigsdaler species. Denominations between 4 rigsbank skilling and 1 rigsbankdaler were also inscribed with the denomination in the currency of Schleswig-Holstein ,

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