Rainbow (Icelandic: Regnboginn) is a Eurosceptic and socialist political party in Iceland, founded in March 2013 by former MP Bjarni Harðarson, who had been elected for the Progressive Party, and current MPs Jón Bjarnason and Atli Gíslason, both dissidents from the Left-Green Movement (VG).
The party was founded in order to contest the 2013 Icelandic parliamentary election.
In 2012, the year prior to the formation of the new party, Bjarnason and Gíslason left VG to sit as independents.
[8] The party seeks to address what they call "the most pending issue in Icelandic society today: the imminent accession to the European Union.
[1] On other issues, they emphasise the need for equal pay for women, increasing the child benefit, expanding preventive healthcare, and breaking up large corporations.