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Municipal Elections 2014

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  • Masters Of Peace And Harmony

    Masters Of Peace And Harmony

    Out with the new, in with the old: Municipal elections were held in Iceland last Saturday with a record low voter turnout.The big shock: A week before the election, the Progressive Party decided to go all populist-right-wing xenophobe. Once again, the 98-year-old…

  • Meet The Parties

    Meet The Parties

    An American politician once famously said “All politics is local,” and that’s as true in Iceland as anywhere else. Four years after Jón Gnarr was gleefully elected mayor after running on platform promises of a Disneyland at Vatnsmýri (where the domestic airport…