Sheep magazine Archive 2: issues 10-17

The Pirate Party is backed by almost half of Iceland’s voters in a poll
taken following the Panama Papers scandal made links the Iceland’s
Prime Minister. Birgitta Jonsdottir, a former Wikileaks spokeswoman and
founding Pirate Party MP, told the Guardian: “It’s gradually dawning on
us, what’s happening.
“It’s strange and very exciting. But we are well prepared now. This is
about change driven not by fear but by courage and hope. We are
popular, not populist.”
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She said the party is prepared to form a coalition government with any
partner that will pledge to its agenda of “fundamental system change”.
The Independence Party has said it will not subscribe to this.
“We will be doing things differently,” Ms Jonsdottir added.
Iceland’s general election had been scheduled to take place in April
2017, however following political unrest over PM Sigmundur David
Gunnlaugsson’s connections to the Panama Papers it is now due to take
place in October, with 29th being the likely date.
Mr Gunnlaugsson temporarily stepped down from his role as Prime
Minister in April and has been replaced by Sigmundur Ingi Johannsson,
formally the country’s agriculture and fisheries minister.
The Pirate Party were polling at up to 43 per cent in the days following
the leak, while Mr Gunnlaugsson’s Progressives, the dominant party in
the current coalition, slumped to single digits.
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