The local news site visir.is is reporting that the informal discussions between the five center-left parties have been suspended as the parties have been unable to find common ground on which to reach compromises. Birgitta Jónsdóttir, the leader of the Pirate party is scheduled to meet with the President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson at 17:00 today. She is expected to return the official mandate to form a coalition government, as the Pirate party has repeatedly promised it is unwilling to form a government with the conservative Independence party and the center right Progress party, the only parties left out of the discussions of the center-left.
Read more: The stalemate in Icelandic politics: What' going on and why is there no coalition in sight?
Previously the chairman of the Independence party, Bjarni Benediktsson, and the chairwoman of the Left-green movement, Katrín Jakobsdóttir had been given the mandate, but failed to form a government. The Pirate party believed it could succeed in forming a center-left government, which the Left-green movement had previously failed at doing. The main disagreements had to do with reforms to the fisheries- and agricultural systems and new taxes needed to finance investments in health-care, education and the welfare system. The Left-green movement wanted tax hikes which the centrist parties were unwilling to agree to.
The local news site visir.is is reporting that the informal discussions between the five center-left parties have been suspended as the parties have been unable to find common ground on which to reach compromises. Birgitta Jónsdóttir, the leader of the Pirate party is scheduled to meet with the President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson at 17:00 today. She is expected to return the official mandate to form a coalition government, as the Pirate party has repeatedly promised it is unwilling to form a government with the conservative Independence party and the center right Progress party, the only parties left out of the discussions of the center-left.
Read more: The stalemate in Icelandic politics: What' going on and why is there no coalition in sight?
Previously the chairman of the Independence party, Bjarni Benediktsson, and the chairwoman of the Left-green movement, Katrín Jakobsdóttir had been given the mandate, but failed to form a government. The Pirate party believed it could succeed in forming a center-left government, which the Left-green movement had previously failed at doing. The main disagreements had to do with reforms to the fisheries- and agricultural systems and new taxes needed to finance investments in health-care, education and the welfare system. The Left-green movement wanted tax hikes which the centrist parties were unwilling to agree to.
