Iceland’s Social Democrats remain the most popular political party, according to the latest Capacent Gallup poll conducted for RUV and Morgunbladid.
Support for the Social Democrats came out at 29.4 percent, followed by the Left Green Party on 27.2 percent and the Independence Party with 25.4 percent.
The level of support for the three main parties remains similar to the last poll, the results of which were released just over a week ago. Support for the Progressive Party has reduced to 10.7 percent, however.
Furthermore, 60.6 percent of respondents approve of the current interim minority coalition government.
The latest poll was compiled from online and telephone survey results which Capacent Gallup carried out between 25 and 31 March. Internet respondents were chosen from the database of people who have registered with Capacent Gallup, and the telephone respondents were chosen at random from the National Registry, mbl.is reports. The sample group was comprised of 2,451 people aged 18 and over. 61.1 percent decided to take part in the survey.
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” I read that you were thinking of reviving the spirit of the French Revolution”
You mean the guillotine?
“good luck if you do, the rest of us need new guidance”
Just have a big enough basket.
I am a resident of ‘Reykjavik-upon-Thames’, (and I saw Bjork singing with KUKL in Elephant and Castle back in 1984) so I’m keeping a close eye on what’s happening with you all up in Iceland.
Firstly, congratulations to all of you Icelanders for being the only people in the world so far to show us all how to do it, going on the streets and throwing out your government! Well done, I’m so proud of you and wish I had been there! I read that you were thinking of reviving the spirit of the French Revolution … good luck if you do, the rest of us need new guidance and I hope you Icelanders turn out to the next geniuses to teach the world how to take things to the next level, good luck to the (possible) ‘Icelandic Revolution’ and to you all from me in London.
If creditors and imf would be allowed to have their way sunshine is the only thing we will have every thing else would be property of foreigners,
its childish to imagine all of this is just something that happended by accident.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22026.htm
this exlains the general idea behid this,
there is a good chance this will not work here because the people are not likely to accept beeing slaves for a gang of thieves, if we loose this battle we will bypass or boycott companys taken over by foreigners until they are bankrupt and turn the trick around, the possibilitys are only limited by our imagination and there is plenty of that, in bad times we are like one and that makes us hard to kill.
llene, thank you for the response and keeping it more civil around here. actually, the ’20’ I refer to is the roughly 20 tycoons and alpha dog politicians in Iceland that were able to tip the whole country over. Whatever the G-20, G-8 or G-random has to say is almost irrelevant. We’ll see how it actually shakes out later but they along with all the pundits and analysts have very little credibility to me. I can get my fill of facts regarding what ‘they’ say in 10 seconds.
Personally I lean more toward the optimism and wishes of the average Icelander. Sometimes it comes off as blind wishful thinking but that is the perspective from the rock and it has worked for them time after time. One person explained to me what they have endured over the millenia and said that this time it is a ‘luxury problem’. Instead of wallowing in predictions and blame they just get on with it. The sunshine is over there….
I thought you were saying like many, that we have change the goberment and we have a new goberment, because some people are actually very proud of that farse. There is no new goberment, they just gave the people what they wanted to hear, but thats all, WE didnt change anything.
Vikingsson
I fully agree with your general conclusion that changing teams not always change political realities.
Anyway IMF is determing a lot now, left or right in power.
What were the predictions of the G-20 about Iceland?
As an investor in Iceland I have no choice but believing in better times to come.
I have been living outside west-europe the last decade and learned that even after terrible miseries, the sun almost always comes through..
what are YOU talking about? I as in me didn’t change anything. The ‘smart side’ I refer to sarcastically is everywhere but Iceland since it was suggested that Icers were inbred dullards that would follow criminals off the cliff, again and again. I’m not sure where you or the other guy are from but how’s it going over there, assuming it must be the ‘smart side’? Perhaps even over there where all this started. Bottom line, I don’t trust the advice or predictions of the ‘big 20’ in Iceland, the leaders and pundits from the G8, or anyone claiming to be financial experts. They were all wrong whether honestly or not. So I don’t blindly change teams as in political parties because I’m certain it doesn’t change anything. Parties are made of people and that is what has to change, then I’ll pick which party and hope if makes a difference. Confidence isn’t high about the leaders but I retain a ray of hope.
BTW, I’m not Icelandic but I’d be insulted if my whole country was classified as inbred idiot criminals whether I’m from Reykjavík or Arkansas.
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@Vikingisson
“WE CHANGE TEAMS” what are you talking about? do you really think YOU canged something? please. what smart side? do you think smart people would have screud a country so bad?
gee Tim, I don’t know but if it makes you feel better let’s say the answer is Yes to all your points.
meanwhile on the smarter side of the world we change teams when we don’t like them and discover that it is the same thing but with a different colour tie.
25.4% still for the Independence Party. So, does that mean that 25.4% of the country has:
1) A corrupt relative in government
2) Relatives or a job at one of the banks
3) A secret hope to become a corrupt government/bank employee
4) A pathological desire to be destitute
5) Too inbred to understand what has been done to the Icelandic people/nation
6) Or so optimistic that they think everybody should be given another chance, then another, then another…
If the party had been “cleaned up” and the obvious villains thrown out, then I could understand sticking with the party. However, to continue to support the same people and more importantly, the same policies is pure ignorance.
Good luck Iceland – see you in the funny papers.
No surprise…