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Post by John Chanin on Mar 19, 2018 19:46:27 GMT
I've never even heard of Sauðárkrókur! Not exactly a likely tourist destination from the look of it. You'd have to go quite a way off the Ring Road. I went and looked it up too for the same reason. It's not that far off the ring road. But its population is only 2500. You have to keep reminding yourself that Iceland outside Reykjavik is village politics. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2018 19:57:18 GMT
I've never even heard of Sauðárkrókur! Not exactly a likely tourist destination from the look of it. You'd have to go quite a way off the Ring Road. I went and looked it up too for the same reason. It's not that far off the ring road. But its population is only 2500. You have to keep reminding yourself that Iceland outside Reykjavik is village politics. Not really fair towards Akureyri, which is a proper town. But yes, I have tried to promote my "a city state with a heck of a lot of hinterland" description to make that point. In this case the village politics just stretches across the country and all the way to the capital, which is the important part about KS (and KS is Sauðárkrókur, its a company town). |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Mar 19, 2018 20:51:19 GMT
I've never even heard of Sauðárkrókur! Not exactly a likely tourist destination from the look of it. You'd have to go quite a way off the Ring Road. I went and looked it up too for the same reason. It's not that far off the ring road. But its population is only 2500. You have to keep reminding yourself that Iceland outside Reykjavik is village politics. Out of the way, maybe a better description. I can't see who would take a detour up there. Doesn't look like there is much there at all, museum or not. I must get to Akureyri at some point. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2018 16:22:08 GMT
Despite having a clear majority behind it a bill to lower the municipal voting age to 16 wasn't brought to a third and final vote today, which was the last chance to do it before the Easter break. The Althing do not reconvene until April 9 and since early voting commences on March 3, eight weeks before the election, that is too late to change the voting age. The supporters of the bill accuse its opponents of obstructing the will of parliament by procedural trickery.
Would have given an extra 9,000 votes if implemented and probably benefitted Pirates, SDA and Reform the most.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2018 20:44:34 GMT
Breiðdalshreppur with 182 inhabitants is merging into Fjarðabyggð. 85-87% Yes in both municipalities, though only 36.5% of the voters in Fjarðabyggð bothered to vote in the referendum.
So down to 72 municipalities now, but this should be the last pre-election merger.
In other news: BF have also given up on running in Akranes where they got 12.3% and one seat last time.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2018 15:15:57 GMT
The Pirates and Reform are running a joint list in Árborg ("Reform, Pirates and Comrades") together with some independents. The list is running on transparency and long term planning of urban development, allocation of building plots and municipal service.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2018 20:54:35 GMT
New Reykjavík poll from the University of Iceland has the centre-left solidly ahead. IP only gain a point now and Reform get two seats. Dagur B. Eggertsson still popular with the ladies - more than twice as many female voters prefer him to Eyþór Arnalds.
Coalition: 13
SDA 31.7 (-0.2) 8
LG 12.8 (+4.5) 3
Pirates 7.7 (+1.8) 2
Centre-right: 10
IP 27.0 (+1.3) 7
Reform 7.3 (new) 2
Centre 5.0 (new) 1
People's Party 3.1 (new)
PP 2.7 (-8.0)
Preferred mayor:
Dagur B. Eggertsson (SDA) 46.4
Eyþór Arnalds (IP) 29.5
Vigdís Hauksdóttir (Centre) 7.1 (so higher than the Centre vote)
Líf Magneudóttir (LG) 6.3
Þórdís Lóa Þórhallsdóttir (Reform) 3.4
Ingvar Mar Jónsson (PP) 1.4
Other 5.9%
Women:
Dagur B. Eggertsson 49.8
Eyþór Arnalds 22.6
Men:
Dagur B. Eggertsson 43.8
Eyþór Arnalds 34.9
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2018 8:05:18 GMT
New populist party in Reykjavík called the Capital List. Eight of its 46 candidates have immigrant background, which is a new record in Iceland.
Its founded by small business owner Björg Kristín Sigþórsdóttir and running on building 10,000 new housing units, primarily on the outskirts in Grafarholt and Norðlingaholt, improving the environment markedly in half a year and securing better road conditions. No ideas to financing. They are against the ruling coalition's express bus plan.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Apr 4, 2018 9:24:51 GMT
New populist party in Reykjavík called the Capital List. Eight of its 46 candidates have immigrant background, which is a new record in Iceland. Its founded by small business owner Björg Kristín Sigþórsdóttir and running on building 10,000 new housing units, primarily on the outskirts in Grafarholt and Norðlingaholt, improving the environment markedly in half a year and securing better road conditions. No ideas to financing. They are against the ruling coalition's express bus plan. You wonder how they square that circle. Better road connections might help, but without better public transport, both of those areas surely cannot sustain their intended populations and the heightened levels of traffic. It was already noticeably busier round there last time I visited. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2018 9:21:06 GMT
The two BF councillors in Hafnarfjörður have left the party, and it seems unlikely they are running a list there. They remain part of the IP led coalition that run the municipality.
So status is BF in Akureyri, Garðabær and Kópavogur have either joined other parties or are running on joint lists, and they arent running at all in Reykjavík, Akranes and, likely, Hafnarfjörður. So all hope of using their municipal base to keep going is gone.
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Apr 7, 2018 20:17:45 GMT
I've never even heard of Sauðárkrókur! Not exactly a likely tourist destination from the look of it. You'd have to go quite a way off the Ring Road. I think I might be heading that way this summer, but it's definitely some way from the usual itinerary. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2018 11:59:18 GMT
Five leftist and liberal parties have joined forces with several independents against IP in Garðabær. LG, SDA, Pirates, BF and Reform have allied with some popular athletes and other Indies as the Garðabær List hoping to break the two decade long absolute IP majority in the wealthy suburb.
No. 3 on the Garðabær List is the Stjarnan forward Harpa Þorsteinsdóttir, who is also on the national team and participated in the women's Euro 2017. No. 6 is the Valur midfielder Guðjón Pétur Lýðsson and no. 16 is the handballplayer Dagur Snær Stefánsson from Stjarnan.
Apart from IP and the Garðabær List the Centre Party is running with current People's List councillor María Grétarsdóttir as their lead candidate. The People's List refused to join the Garðabær List, and its unclear if they are running again, though likely not.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2018 9:26:57 GMT
New Fréttablaðið poll has LG "losing" the third seat that all previous polls had them gaining and the ruling coalition thereby losing its majority. Still, Fréttablaðið is not a quality pollster and a narrow 12 seat majority to the coalition still seems the most likely.
Coalition: 11
SDA 26.8% (7)
Pirates 10.8% (2)
LG 10.5% (2)
IP 28.2% (7)
Reform 7.9% (2)
Centre 4.3% (1)
People's Party 4.3% (1)
PP 4.0% (1)
Icelandic Socialist Party 1.4%
Women's List 1.0 (not named yet)
So two leftist (or in the case of the Socialists faux leftist) parties results in wasted votes and some of the smaller parties are gaining (though Centre is losing support).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2018 11:50:46 GMT
The IP rebels on the Vestmanna Islands have formed their own list called For Heimaey (the only inhabited island), likely with former Althing alternate and chairman of the main local sports association ÍBV Íris Róbertsdóttir as their lead candidate. Their candidate list will be announced on Sunday.
IP got 73.2% in 2014, their best result anywhere. Elliði Vignisson has been municipal manager for twelve years and has run the municipality in a fairly "absolutist" style. He has voluntary accepted being relegated to the 5th spot this time, which means he is unlikely to be elected to the council. Their list is instead topped by the current chairman of the municipal council Hildur Sólveig Sigurðardóttir, in order to negate the "woman effect", but since municipal managers are hired and not elected Elliði Vignisson is still likely to end up as manager if IP retain a majority.
The left wing Island List currently has two of the seven seats, but has been marred by internal infighting. They are likely to back Íris Róbertsdóttir if the Island List and For Heimaey get a combined majority.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2018 11:03:45 GMT
Fréttablaðið has made a poll of the Vestmanna Islands election, showing that IP is likely to lose power.
IP 41.2% (-32.0) 3 seats
For Hemön 31.9% (new) 2 seats
Island List 25.4% (-0.8) 2 seats
The two IPs have a clearly different gender profile.
Men:
IP 47%
For Hemön 25%
Women:
IP 33%
For Hemön 42%
Lead candidate for For Hemön ris Róbertsdóttir has refused so quit IP, which she still supports nationally, even if the party by-laws say you cannot be a member of a competing party. Local MP Páll Magnússon, who has been overlooked for a cabinet portfolio twice despite high seniority and has a bad relationship to the IP leadership, supports her.
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IP is also likely to break in another of its traditional strongholds, Seltjarnarnes, where it has held power since the municipality was established in 1974. group of dissidents will likely form their own list later this week due to dissasifation with bad investments and lack of budget discipline.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2018 11:20:20 GMT
Both the Freedom Party and the Icelandic National Front have confirmed they are running in Reykjavík, which means that there are likely to be no less than 17 lists, a new record.
They will be competing for the Islamophobic vote with ex-PP councillor turned independent Sveinbjörg Birna Sveinbjörnsdóttir, who has founded Our city - Reykjavík after - according to herself - turning down offers from PP (though that seems doubtful), the People's Party, the Freedom Party and the Icelandic National Front.
She wanted to borrow both campaign song and party name from Iceland's most popular rapper Emmsjé Gauti, using his biggest hit Reykjavík er okkar ('Reykjavík is ours'), but since he is a lefty - like all Icelandic rappers - he turned her down. Though Our city - Reykjavík is ofc pretty close and Emmsjé Gauti still considers it inappropriate plagiarizing (though it obviously isn't legally).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2018 17:31:42 GMT
New Fréttablaðið poll for Reykjavík has the centre-left losing their majority, though they could likely continue together with Reform. Numbers in brackets are from the last poll two weeks ago.
SDA 25.7 (-1.1) 7
Pirates 10.7 (-0.1) 2
LG 7.6 (-2.9) 2
IP 30.2 (+2.0) 8
Centre 7.6 (+3.3) 2
Reform 7.2 (-0.7) 2
PP 3.6 (-0.4)
Women's List 1.4 (+0.4)
Icelandic Socialist Party 1.0 (-0.4)
People's Party 1.0 (-3.3)
All others below 1%. PP is extremely close to taking a seat from Reform.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2018 8:22:12 GMT
New Fréttablaðið poll for Reykjavík has the centre-left losing their majority, though they could likely continue together with Reform. Numbers in brackets are from the last poll two weeks ago. SDA 25.7 (-1.1) 7 Pirates 10.7 (-0.1) 2 LG 7.6 (-2.9) 2 IP 30.2 (+2.0) 8 Centre 7.6 (+3.3) 2 Reform 7.2 (-0.7) 2 PP 3.6 (-0.4) Women's List 1.4 (+0.4) Icelandic Socialist Party 1.0 (-0.4) People's Party 1.0 (-3.3) All others below 1%. PP is extremely close to taking a seat from Reform. The seven lists below 1% are: Right wing populist: Icelandic National Front Freedom Party Our City - Reykjavík Generic populist: Capital List Call List Left wing: People's Front of Iceland Men's List (see below) |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2018 18:13:09 GMT
It will be decided which lists are confirmed on 5 May, but I have put up the poll for Reykjavík now.
The Men's List is a protest against the formation of the Women's List, focused on father's rights and "full gender equality" and led by academic Gunnar Kristinn Þórðarson and drummer Gunnar Waage. The Call List, so called because they couldn't decide what to call it and didn't want to take themselves too seriously, is formed by the editor Karl Th. Birgisson, with the actress Edda Björg Eyjólfsdóttir, Professor Karl Ægir Karlsson and the Rev. Davíð Þór Jónsson as other semi-prominent names.
They are running on a mixed bag of populist proposals.
a) raising fees on plastic bags to a level where people stop using them.
b) rent control with 1,200 or1,300 ISK per m2 as maximum.
c) establishment of a cheap public service with basic bank functions so you do not have to have bank account for wages, pensions and simple transfers.
d) free public bus transport (like in Akureyri) and renaming the city line to fast buses.
e) abolish kindergarten fees.
f) free school meals for all children.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2018 10:50:08 GMT
A couple of polls by Fréttablaðið. Árborg (Selfoss) with the change from 2014 in brackets. www.visir.is/g/2018180509569IP is crashing down there, where the development plan for central Selfoss (building up the center or growth on the periphery) and the municipal sewage system (discharging treated wastewater into the river Ölfusá or the ocean) are the big issues. LG set to overtake SDA on the left. IP 29.6 (-21.4) Centre 13.9 (new) LG 13.8 (+8.9) SDA 12.1 (-7.0) Forward Árborg 11.7 (new) PP 8.3 (-6.6) Others 11.3 (none have declared yet) Forward Árborg is the joint Pirates and Reform list. ... In Akureyri the ruling coalition of the Municipal List, SDA and PP stands to lose their majority. But Centre haven't presented a list yet and the deadline for doing so expires tomorrow, which gives some insecurity as PP would benefit from them not standing. As previously mentioned Reform and BF are running candidates on the Municipal List, whereas the Pirates are running their own list this time. www.frettabladid.is/frettir/meirihlutinn-a-akureyri-kolfallinn-og-breytingar-i-vaendumIP 28.9 (+3.1) 4 Municipal List 20.9 (-0.2) 2 LG 11.1 (+0.6) 1 PP 10.1 (-4.1) 1 SDA 9.5 (-8.1) 1 Centre 8.7 (new) 1 Pirates 7.4 (new) 1 |
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