While the leader of the Left Green Movement is the undisputed front runner for the 2017 parliamentary elections, an unlikely and virtually unknown candidate has emerged as the front runner for the most humorous and amusing political ad of the season.
Jóhann Friðrik Friðriksson, an environmental activist who has fought against polluting industry in the Suðurnes region (which includes the fishing vilalges around Keflavík Airport), who is running on the Progress Party ticket in the Southern district, appears in an ad for the party, urging voters to come to a traditional waffle and coffee soiree today at the party's campaign headquarters. Waffle soirees are one of the key institutions of Icelandic politics: The parties take the waffle making very seriously, with party volunteers baking stacks of waffles, whipping up tub-fulls of whipped cream and rhubarb jelly.
Jóhann's ad pokes fun at himself and this tradition, while at the same time taking it to its logical conclusion, urging people to show up, because otherwise he would be forced to eat all the waffles himself! Since the original Icelandic might be challenging to most of our readers, we at Iceland Insider took it upon ourselves to translate it. (The Icelandic Original can be seen at the bottom of the page).
While the leader of the Left Green Movement is the undisputed front runner for the 2017 parliamentary elections, an unlikely and virtually unknown candidate has emerged as the front runner for the most humorous and amusing political ad of the season.
Jóhann Friðrik Friðriksson, an environmental activist who has fought against polluting industry in the Suðurnes region (which includes the fishing vilalges around Keflavík Airport), who is running on the Progress Party ticket in the Southern district, appears in an ad for the party, urging voters to come to a traditional waffle and coffee soiree today at the party's campaign headquarters. Waffle soirees are one of the key institutions of Icelandic politics: The parties take the waffle making very seriously, with party volunteers baking stacks of waffles, whipping up tub-fulls of whipped cream and rhubarb jelly.
Jóhann's ad pokes fun at himself and this tradition, while at the same time taking it to its logical conclusion, urging people to show up, because otherwise he would be forced to eat all the waffles himself! Since the original Icelandic might be challenging to most of our readers, we at Iceland Insider took it upon ourselves to translate it. (The Icelandic Original can be seen at the bottom of the page).
