The chairman of the Icelandic parliament’s constitutional and supervisory committee has said she thinks it is not unlikely  that the country’s proposed new constitution will be put to a national referendum. Read the full story

Iceland’s electoral commission has released the final results of Saturday’s election on the Icesave law. Read the full story

A referendum on the so-called ‘Icesave Agreement’ was held in Iceland on Saturday, 9 April. The referendum concerns the validity of Act No. 13/2011, which authorised the Minister of Finance to sign the agreements on “the guarantee of (a) reimbursement from the Depositors’ and Investors’ Guarantee Fund to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands of costs resulting from the payment of minimum guarantees to depositors in branches of Landsbanki Íslands hf. in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and (b) payment of remaining balance and interest on these commitments”. Read the full story

With a 60/40 vote against the Icesave repayment deal, Iceland’s Minister of Finance Steingrimur J. Sigfusson says the case will now go to court, but that there are no hard feelings in the Netherlands and the UK. Read the full story

The first voting figures from today’s Icesave referendum have been released. With 68,840 votes counted nationally, 57.7 percent have said ‘no’ Read the full story

Voter turnout in today’s Icesave referendum in Iceland is being described as good so far. In the two Reykjavik voting districts turnout by 14.00 was better than at the last Icesave referendum, but lower than at the 2009 Althingi general election. Read the full story

For the second time, Icelanders are today voting in a national referendum on whether to approve or deny a new deal aiming to pay back the British and Dutch governments for the money they spent bailing out customers of Landsbanki’s failed Icesave savings accounts. Read the full story

According to a new MMR poll conducted for Stod 2, Iceland will reject the so-called Icesave deal at this Saturday’s referendum. Read the full story

Reykjavik police are investigating a letter sent to the DV newspaper threatening former and current MPs who have spoken out in favour of voting ‘yes’ in the Icesave referendum this coming weekend. Meanwhile the official referendum information booklet is being distributed to all homes today and yesterday. Read the full story

Steingrimur J. Sigfusson, Iceland’s Minister of Finance, and Katrin Jakobsdottir, Minister for Education, have urged members of their Left Green Movement to vote yes in this Saturday’s Icesave referendum in a column on the party website. Read the full story