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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Oct 25, 2016 6:30:29 GMT
Yes, you want to be careful about annoying the Faroese.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Oct 25, 2016 11:57:58 GMT
Yes, you want to be careful about annoying the Faroese. Pah, that's just Icelandic with Danish letters!  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2016 13:52:31 GMT
Polls will open on 9am Saturday morning Icelandic time and the last will close at 10pm. The final result wont be ready until Sunday morning.
Yesterday 11, 308 had voted early and these votes will be counted last. Young people are the most likely to vote early, so the Pirate vote will be higher than the preliminary results at midnight.
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Oct 25, 2016 19:12:29 GMT
Yes, you want to be careful about annoying the Faroese. Pah, that's just Icelandic with Danish letters! Don't blame me when you come home to find a guillemot's head in your bed. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2016 21:45:16 GMT
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Post by Adam in Stroud on Oct 25, 2016 21:55:38 GMT
Blimey, is everyone in Iceland in a rock band?
No-one from Sigur Ros yet, I note. Slackers.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2016 9:59:36 GMT
Fréttablaðið poll show the "government talks, that weren't government talks" backfiring, and all four participating parties losing, while Viðreisn gain all of the "lost territory" back. BF now close to the threshold again. But its still the most unreliable of the pollsters, so it might be an outlier. The poll is conducted 24-25 October. SDA say they will not enter government with such a weak result, which will complicate things significantly.
Centre-right: 47.1
IP 25.1
PP 11.2
Viðreisn 10.8 (+4.2)
Centre-left: 47.8
Pirates 20.3
Left Greens 16.4
SDA 6.0
BF 5.1
Others 5.1 (unspecified)
The response rate was 71.2% (802 of 1,127)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2016 10:23:34 GMT
The chairman of the Icelandic National Front claim that the People's Party initiated talks with them about forming a joint list (together with some group called New Power) for the next elections called the National Front in order to get access to public funding. Inga Sæland says the allegation is laughable. Yet the presence of former members of the Liberal Party (which was quite xenophobic) on the People's Party lists may mean some voters are willing to believe this.  |
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Post by AustralianSwingVoter on Oct 26, 2016 12:48:43 GMT
Why am I the only one voting for Progress!
But more importantly POST 1000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2016 13:50:12 GMT
Why am I the only one voting for Progress! Its basically the Icelandic version of (rural) Fianna Fail, so a very odd choice for a foreigner. Plus the party is currently in shambles. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2016 14:04:58 GMT
MMR poll conducted October 19-26
IP 21.9%
PP 10.0%
Viðreisn 9.3%
Pírates 19.1%
Left Greens16.0%
BF 8.8%
SDA 7.6%
People's Party 3.4%
Dawn1.6%
Icelandic National Front1.5%
People's Front of Iceland 0.7%
Humanist Party 0.1%
4.9% would vote blank, which may be a factor this time.
33.3% support the government.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2016 16:44:50 GMT
The Icelandic National Front has excluded the two defected Reykjavík top candidates and two of their supporters, and threatened calling the police when they showed up to a party meeting. Jens G. Jensson, who is their top candidate in NW, now says that historian Gústaf Níelsson defected because he is heavily involved in prostitution, human trafficking and strip clubs and realized it would be exposed during the campaign. Gústaf Níelsson now intends to sue JGJ for defamation.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2016 17:46:32 GMT
This election sets yet another couple of records: The youngest candidate is the youngest ever to run for parliament and the eldest candidate is dead...
Ásta Sóley Hjálmarsdóttir from the Peoplet's Front of Iceland, who turned 18 on 12 October, is running in the South constituency.
Jónsteinn Haraldsson (92) died on18 October, but his relatives did not want him removed from the ballot and LG in Reykjavík South decided to keep him on their list. He is no. 20 and its an Icelandic tradition to reserve the last spot on a party list to a veteran the party want to honour.
Its the first time a deceased has been on the ballot in Iceland.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2016 22:46:07 GMT
While we are waiting for Gallup one more Fréttablaðið poll:
Based on 1,564 responses from a 2.,006 sample (= 70.9%)
IP 27.3% (18)
Viðreisn10.5% (7)
PP 9.9% (8)
Pirates 18.4% (12)
Left Greens 16.4% (11)
BF 6.3% (4)
SDA 5.7% (4)
This sum up to 64 seats, so one of them must be miscalculated (not necessarily the 8th PP seat as they get the cheap rural seats)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2016 22:57:13 GMT
The meeting between the four opposition ended with a statement that they intend to form a majority government if they get the necessary seats (as everybody already knew), but will not announce any common policies. They agree there should be a new constitution, but not about the Pirate proposal of a snap new election to get it ratified. The Pirats have thus de facto caved in on one of their major electoral pledges.
They also will work in the "general direction" of a referendum about reopening the EU membership talks (pretty sure LG blocked this from becoming a promise).
All in all a giant flop and the Pirates insisting on this "joint platform" and undeclared government talks may cost the centre-left the election (it certainly saved Viðreisn from a near collapse).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2016 13:00:06 GMT
The four promises the opposition agreed on in their joint declaration were: - The healthcare system will be restored - The dividend of natural resources will flow to the nation - A new constitution will be ratified - Ambitious policies on climate change A Maskína poll show 57% in favor of partis negotiating prior to the election, 18.6% against and 24.3% indifferent. The poll has too small subsamples for them to be reliable, but the general picture is logical and indicates an important segment of centrist and swing voters are against pre-election negotiations supporting the view that it cost especially BF voters (going to Vidreisn). maskina.is/images/20161027_samstarf_stjrnmlaflokka_masknuskrsla.pdfPoistive: SDA 89.7% Pirates 82.6% Left Greens 79.0% BF 65.4% Vidreisn 51.4% Undecided 40.0% IP 24.0% PP 17.6% Negative: Undecided 46.6% Vidreisn 33.0% IP 28.0% PP 24.5% Left Greens 15.3% Pirates 14.7% BF 13.8% SDA 10.3% |
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Post by john07 on Oct 28, 2016 13:06:51 GMT
Well, Icelandic is the only Scandinavian language which isn't Danish with different diacritics. (Runs and hides under rodgrod med flode) Finnish? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2016 13:30:26 GMT
MMR 26-28 October
IP 24.7
PP 11.4
Viðreisn 8.9
Pirates 20.5
Left Greens 16.2
BF 6.7
SDA 6.1
Peoples Party 2.4
Dawn 2.3
Icelandic National Front 0.6 (lol)
Peoples Front of Iceland 0.2
Humanist Party 0.1
35% support the government.
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Post by hedgehog on Oct 28, 2016 14:55:43 GMT
Well, Icelandic is the only Scandinavian language which isn't Danish with different diacritics. (Runs and hides under rodgrod med flode) Finnish? I beleve that Scandanavia normally refers to Norway, Sweden and Denmark, while the term Nordic refers to Scandanavia, Iceland and Finland. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2016 15:12:51 GMT
University of Iceland poll:
IP 22.5% (16)
PP 10.2% (7)
Vidreisn 11.4% (7)
Pirates 21.2% (14)
Left 16.8% (11)
BF 6.7% (4)
SDA 5.7% (4)
Others 5.1%
Two party leaders would not get in. Oddný G. Harðardóttir and Benedikt Jóhannesson from Vidreisn (who is running in NE, which is a bit of a gamble by them).
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