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Icelandic PM dissolves government and calls for election on Nov. 30th.

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Written by Daniel Mercado

Icelandic Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson recently announced the end of the Icelandic governing coalition and called for parliamentary elections to be held on November 30th. [1]

The former governing coalition was comprised of the right-wing Independence Party, the Left-Green Movement, and the center-right (and confusingly named) Progressive Party. [2]

The Independence Party are box standard European Liberals - socially centrist, pro-privatization and Euroskeptics. [3][4]

The Progressive Party is a long-standing conservative rural party that focuses largely on farmers and is often in favor of privatization in many fields, despite being pro-nationalization in others. They also tend to be Euroskeptics. The Left-Green Movement is Iceland’s socially and economically progressive party, with many of their policy issues being focused on women’s and reproductive rights, greater environmental protections, and higher corporate taxes. Despite *also* being Euroskeptics, their skepticism doesn't come from a place of xenophobia, contrasting their right-wing contemporaries. [5]

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