Iceland 2009

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A poll I saw a while ago had the biggest ruling party in third (Independence, or conservatives), behind the Socialdemocrats and whatever the red-greenies call themselves.

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Aha. Here it is: http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/32339/social_alliance_leads_rivals_in_iceland

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Parties-and-elections.de lists the Liberal Party as "liberal". Uber-lol. Ironically, their name in Icelandic is abbreviated FF, which they certainly are not.

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Also...

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/majority_in_iceland_wants_currency_change/

Iceland may petition to join the Eurozone after the upcoming election. Independence has been softening its anti-EU stance for the past few years, but the Left-Greens are very strongly pro-EU, and the other parties are not opposed. If the Left-Greens really do surge into largest party status, well, things will change.

(It's also worth noting that, despite the EU's objections, Montenegro and Kosovo use the Euro unilaterally, and Iceland could probably get away with it if they wanted to.)

The Progressive Party became in favour of joining the EU now. They dropped their past opposition to it.

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How do these developments effect the likelihood of Iceland joining the EU?

http://news.scotsman.com/world/Fast-track-to-EU-could.4933200.jp

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Pollz!!

Social Democrats 31.7%
Independence 29.1%
Left-Greens 25.8%
Progressive 7.5%
"Liberals" 1.8%

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Election be today. Here be the latest poll.

Social Democrats: 29.8%
Left-Greens: 26.3%
Independence: 23.2%
Progressives: 12%
"Citizens' Movement" (?): 6.8% (!)
Liberals: 1.5%
Others: 0.5%

Guess I'll endorse the Left-Greens just because it would so cool to have the first government in the world with Greenies as the senior partner.

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For those who derive vague excitement from understanding words like "pólitik" in a stream of gibberish, election coverage is at http://dagskra.ruv.is/sjonvarpid/streymi/

Don't dis Icelandic, fool!

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For those who derive vague excitement from understanding words like "pólitik" in a stream of gibberish, election coverage is at http://dagskra.ruv.is/sjonvarpid/streymi/

Don't dis Icelandic, fool!

Not dissing it, just can't understand it.  It sounds pretty cool, actually.

They're displaying a pie chart that looks like this:
Pink (left-green?) - 20
Orange (socialists?) - 17
Green (prog?) - 7
Blue (indep?) - 15
Yellow (?) - 4
Not sure if this is final results or partial results or what.

It's actually a poll, results come out in 13 minutes or so.

It's actually:
pink: SDA (S)
orange: Left-Greenies (V)
green: Progressive (P)
blue: Independence (D)
yellow: that Citizen thingee

I love that old video they're showing with the guy answering the phone every second.

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unrelated, but they just had a McDonald's ad. lol

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Countdown!

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RJK-Southwest constituency: Massive Independence loses (-3 seats), SDA gains only very minor gains for Left-Greens Citizens doing well (8.3%).

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Oh, and I found something about the Citizens' Movement:
http://wdpost.com/2009/02/23/borgarahreyfingin-a-new-radical-political-party/
Apparently they want to change the electoral system from pure PR to something else?

Any idea on their views on the EU? The SDA and Progressives are in favor of membership while Independence and the Left-Greens are opposed, so the Citizen's Movement holds the balance on the issue.

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