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Iceland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

Ólafur Th. Hardarson  and
Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson
Ólafur Th. Hardarson
Affiliation:
University of Iceland
Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson
Affiliation:
University of Iceland
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The government coalition of the Progressive Party (PP) and the Independence Party (IP) became increasingly unpopular during 2014. Its support fell to around one-third of respondents in opinion polls. Iceland’s negotiations on EU membership remained on ice during the year. Despite controversial government debt relief measures for households – based on bold promises given by the PP during the 2013 election campaign – the Progressives remained at rock bottom in the opinion polls. There were signs of increasing economic unrest, in the labour market for example. The Minister of the Interior resigned after a scandal, and turnout in the local elections was the lowest for decades.

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Political Data Yearbook , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , December 2015 , pp. 141 - 146
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Copyright © 2016 European Consortium for Political Research

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