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Iceland faces politically tumultuous times after the conservative ruling party emerged weakened in a snap vote, with new parties entering parliament in the nation’s third
election in four years.
The Independence Party will win about 25.3 percent of the vote, down from 29 percent last year, a count of about
45 percent of the vote showed. Its closest challenger, the
Left Green Movement, rose to 16.8 percent. Former Prime Minister David Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson emerged as one of the big winners, getting 10.3 percent with his newly formed Center Party. With a strong economy at his back, Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson rallied during the campaign after he was forced to call a snap election as his three-party center-right coalition collapsed amid a controversy involving the granting of clemency to a convicted child molester.
The country now faces an “unprecedented†situation and the new political reality will require everyone to be “broad minded,†Benediktsson said in a televised party leader debate on state-broadcaster RUV.