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Which election was won by a party that said in advance that it would not keep its promises?

The 2010 Reykjavík city council election saw the participation of the "Best Party", founded shortly before by comedian Jon Gnarr. The party program contained many populist slogans and promises of all kinds of benefits, but it was immediately stipulated that the party would not fulfill these promises in the event of a victory. One of the points of the program was the statement that all other parties are secretly corrupt, so our party will be openly corrupt. As a result, "The Best Party" really became the first with a score of 34,7% of the vote, and Jon Gnarr took over as mayor of Reykjavik.

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