The parliamentary committee scrutinising the report into the Icelandic banking crash has come to a decision; but not unanimously, Visir.is reports.
The committee, chaired by Atli Gislasson, was split on its decision on which former ministers to bring in front of a specially convened “high court” (Landsdomur). Five of the nine committee members want to bring four former ministers in front of the Landsdomur.
The representatives of the Left Green Movement, the Progressive Party and The Movement all wanted to implicate former Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde; former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir; former Minister of Finance, Arni M. Mathiesen and former Minister of Trade, Bjorgvin G. Sigurdsson.
The committee members from the Social Democrats wanted to leave Bjorgvin G. Sigurdsson off the list and representatives of the Independence Party voted not to bring charges against anybody.
A Landsdomur, or high court, has never been called together in Iceland’s history as an independent nation. The sole purpose of such a court is to make decisions on cases brought by the Althingi parliament against ministers who have allegedly failed in their duties.
The current Landsdomur was assembled in 2005 for a six-year term; but has never been called together. It is made up of five Supreme Court judges, a law professor, the chief judge of Reykjavik and eight others who were selected by parliament.
Parliament must now vote on the committee’s recommendations.
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Note: If sitting parliament of Iceland want to solve and clean the past, this is a necessary process to win back their trust of the voters, citizen’s of Iceland need to se that the responsible persons is prosecuted and punished if they found guilty, why should they get away with what they where responsible for, when the little man who is a victim in this “story” have to go to court and probably lose every thing because of them.
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I’ve been looking for a chance to pimp for Dadi’s excellent article, and this ties in nicely with point 9.
http://www.economicdisasterarea.com/index.php/features/its-all-gone-fucking-fuck-in-iceland/
Although, even if they do decide to go for all four, I don’t hold out much hope for an institution whose member might be reasonably, given what we’ve read about Icelandic politics, to owe and be owned by the establishment.
Anyway, loads more reporting on this on Iceland Review.