An early election was held in andrzejki on the island, which was scheduled after the dissolution of the ruling coalition. The voters in the east and north of the country did not have easy due to the fact that it was snowing intensely. While 500 residents of the port of Djúpivogur were breaking into the polling place through the bays, the fortunate people in Reykjavík enjoyed the sun. The single-cameral Althing is the oldest in the world, has been operating since 930. As many as 34 people who had never been Members have chosen to vote 80 percent.
Marta Evening and Paweł Bartoszek
The results were given on 1 December. The Alliance won. This social democratic group can number on 15 seats in parliament. The centre-right independency organization serving Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson will have 14 MPs. As a 3rd force with 11 deputies, the pro-European organization of Rebirth entered parliament. Paweł Bartoszek, Icelandic of Polish origin, was awarded the parliamentary mandate. The People's organization besides recorded a good consequence (10 MPs). Their candidate Marta Wieczorek became the first Polish in past with a mandate to Althing, although she will service as a substitute MP, alleged vara.ingma.ur.
Paweł Bartoszek has been active on the Icelandic political scene for a decade. In 2016, he became active with the Rebirth organization and became an MP for the first time. The mandate was lost a year later as a consequence of early elections. In 2018, he became city councillor in the capital, and in 2019 – 2021 served as president of the Reykjavík City Council. In the municipal election of 2022 he failed to hold his mandate, but became deputy councillor.
On 1 December of that year, Bartosz stated that his group had ambitions to co-host Iceland, and the main challenge would be to fight inflation and deficit. He besides pointed out that he would take care of fresh residents of the country, including people of Polish origin. – While on the city council, I provided a full grant for social schools teaching native languages, including the Polish School. The MP besides plans to make an Icelandic-Polish relationship group in Althinga, following a akin pattern in the Polish Parliament.
Marta Wieczorek, despite 3 children, finds time not only to work in 2 schools, but besides for political activity. Since 2009, she has been a teacher at Janusz Korczak Polish School in Reykjavík. She is presently the deputy manager of the facility. She besides works at the Halabrekkukóli simple School in the capital territory of Brei.holt. On weekdays, he teaches Icelandic to children of abroad origin. On Saturdays, he teaches the past of Polish children of Polish origin.
The evening was awarded the title “Reykjavíchanka of the Year 2024” by the capital authorities. Her commitment to teaching children in Halabrekkukóla and her contribution to promoting parent tongue teaching among Polish children in Iceland was highlighted in the explanatory memorandum.
Poland stands out
Some of the Icelandic migrants have already returned, thanks to which Poland has become the country with the largest number of people with cognition of Icelandic language outside Iceland. The government in Reykjavík noted that good cognition of both languages among young people opens opportunities to advance Icelandic culture abroad, so it supports Polish teaching.
As many as 23 1000 Poles live on the island. This is the largest national group. That's 6 percent of Iceland's population. Poles work in the construction, fishing and processing industry, tourism and hotel industry. Moreover, Poles are ready to work in smaller towns that would be threatened with depopulation. Young Icelanders are increasingly moving to the capital.
