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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (419)	1/24/2016 7:31:45 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 1844

Iceland’s Pirate Party Increases Election Poll Lead The Speaker News January 23, 2016 Iceland’s Pirate Party has continued to dominate national opinion polls, and has now extended its lead to near 40 percent support in the nation. According to the most recent MMR poll, the Pirate Party has 37.8 percent support. The runner-up, the Independence Party, continues to lose support in the polls, and now sits at under 20 percent. The rise of the Pirate Party has been dramatic. Founded by Birgitta Jonsdottir, Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson, Jón Þór Ólafsson, Smári McCarthy, and Björn Þór Jóhannesson in 2012, the party held no more than 12.8 percent of support until March of 2015, when numbers rose into the 20s. Since April the party has enjoyed the majority of support in the polls, maintaining numbers above 30 percent. To explain the dramatic shift in support, Icelandic parliamentarian and Pirate Party leader Birgitta Jonsdottir pointed toward popular trust and democracy regarding the matter of accession of Iceland to the European Union last year. “It was directly linked with the foreign minister bypassing the parliament in this action,” Jonsdottir told The Speaker. In March of 2015 the Icelandic foreign minister informed the EU Presidency that Iceland’s government had decided Iceland would not restart negotiations on accession and that the new decision superseded commitments toward accession made by the previous Icelandic government. “One of the promises of this government was to call for a national referendum asking Icelanders if they wanted to carry on or stop the EU bid. They broke that promise with the action of the foreign minister.” By Justin Munce thespeaker.co