[5] The party proposes to reform the state's banking sector, maintaining government ownership of Landsbankinn, while reclaiming the state's stake in Arion Bank, which is controlled by hedge funds,[11] and redistributing a third of its shares among Icelanders.

The party supports scrapping indexation on debts and opposes the accession of Iceland to the European Union.

[13] At the inaugural meeting of the party in Reykjavik on 8 October, the party's chairman and founder Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson stated that the party supported the best ideas of the left and right, emphasizing both the protection of individual rights and social security, while also focusing on regional issues in the same vein of the Northern Powerhouse in the United Kingdom and improving benefits for the elderly.

[17] One of the party's members has called for teaching climate change denial views in public schools.

Sigmundur Davíð stated that the goal of this policy was to ensure that no one would come to the country seeking asylum.