[1] The chairman of the party was Sturla Jónsson, teamster and protester, who is today most commonly known for his participation in a documentary movie about the Icelandic financial crisis in 2009.
It was officially founded on 17 December 2008, and in early 2009 it managed to collect more than 300 signatures for the purpose of running in the April 2009 parliamentary election.
[4] In January 2013, it was rumoured by several Icelandic websites that the party was planning to contest the April 2013 parliamentary election.
On 23 February, the party announced it had indeed now collected the minimum of 300 signatures, and applied to participate in the election with list letter K.[5] The party received list letter K from the Ministry of Interior on 8 March 2013,[6] and then established its election campaign centre in Sturla's old workshop with the main purpose to start composing a valid candidate list.
Sturla explained he believed the biggest support base for his party was to be found in his neighbour constituency, which was the reason he had preferred to list there, but also used the opportunity to highlight that his party would actively work to reform the election law, so that Iceland in future elections should not be divided into any vote limiting constituencies, but instead only have one list of available parties and candidates for the entire island.