the mouse that roared
  • HOME
  • FILM
    • LOGLINE
    • SYNOPSIS
    • TEAM
    • FILM CLIP
    • PHOTOS
  • SUPPORT
  • CONTACT
  • BLOG

Blog


No One Given Mandate to Form Government

12/13/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
After Pirate Captain Birgitta Jónsdóttir returned the mandate to form a government yesterday afternoon, Icelandic President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson sent out a statement to the press. In it, he wrote that for now, he had decided not to give any party leader the mandate to form a government.
The president explained that after Birgitta returned the mandate, he had spoken will the leaders of all other parties represented in Alþingi [the Icelandic parliament] about the grave situation that has come up more than six weeks after the parliamentary election. Already, the leaders of the country’s three largest political parties have attempted to form a government. Various options have been discussed.
The statement continues, “In light of the views expressed during my conversations with party leaders today, I have decided, for now, not to give any one of them the mandate to form a government. Instead, I encouraged them to consult among themselves and explore during informal discussions which options still remain open in forming a government, which will enjoy majority support in Alþingi, or can at least survive a vote of no confidence. In my conversations with party leaders, I also mentioned the pressing tasks awaiting solution in Alþingi, demanding good cooperation and unity.
Finally, I reminded party leaders of their responsibility and duty to reach an agreement on forming a government. I told them I anticipated news this week on that subject.”
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    October 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016

    Categories

    All

    Election 2016 Results 

    Invalid/blank votes 5,574
    Total 195,204
    Registered voters 246,515
    ​Turnout 79.19%

    Independence Party (54,990) 29.00% 21 seats
    Left-Green Movement (30,166) 15.91% 10 seats
    Pirate Party (27,449) 14.48% 10 seats
    Progressive Party (21,791) 11.49% 8 seats
    Reform (19,870) 10.48% 7 seats
    Bright Future (13,578) 7.16% 4 seats
    Social Democratic Alliance (10,893) 5.74% 3 seats
    People’s Party (6,707) 3.54 % No seats
    Dawn (3,275) 1.7% No seats
    People’s Front of Iceland (575) 0.30% No seats
    Icelandic National Front (303) 0.16% No seats
    Humanist Party (33) 0.02% No seats

    In brief | Pirate Party
    What: A pro-free speech, anti-authoritarian political party in Iceland
    Formed: 2012

    Founders: A group of anarchists, hackers and internet-freedom activists

    Leader: The party eschews formal leaders but Birgitta Jonsdottir is the most senior of three Pirate lawmakers in Iceland’s parliament

    Pirate policies
    • direct democracy
    • a new national constitution
    • public vetoes over new laws
    • greater scrutiny of the workings of government
    • strict safeguards for individuals’ online and offline privacy
    • public ownership of the country’s natural resources

    “I would like everybody in Iceland to find the pirate within, because the pirate within really represents change and a collective vision for the future.”
    - Birgitta Jonsdottir, Pirate Party lawmaker

  • HOME
  • FILM
    • LOGLINE
    • SYNOPSIS
    • TEAM
    • FILM CLIP
    • PHOTOS
  • SUPPORT
  • CONTACT
  • BLOG