Iceland’s ruling coalition boosts majority, preliminary election outcomes present

Iceland’s ruling left-right coalition seems set to strengthen its majority after a common election held on Saturday regardless of Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir shedding floor, state broadcaster RUV stated on Sunday primarily based on preliminary outcomes.
Opinion polls had forecast the coalition would fall wanting a majority however a surge in help for the centre-right Progressive Party, set to win 5 extra seats than in 2017, pushed its whole depend to 38 seats within the 63-seat parliament Althingi.

The authorities consisting of the Left-Green Movement, the conservative Independence Party and the centrist-agrarian Progressive Party gained three seats in comparison with the 2017 election.Before the election, the three events stated they’d negotiate continued cooperation in the event that they held their majority, based on RUV.
People line-up to vote exterior a polling station in Reykjavik, Iceland, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021. Iceland is heading to the polls for common elections on Saturday with 9 events working for seats on the North Atlantic island nation’s Parliament, or Althing. Polls counsel Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir’s Left Green Party might face a poor final result, ending the present coalition. (AP Photo/Brynjar Gunnarsson)
President Gudni Johannesson has but to formally hand a mandate to the occasion that will likely be tasked with forming the following authorities.
The conservative Independence Party once more turned the largest in parliament regardless of shedding some help however maintaining its variety of seats unchanged whereas the Left-Green Movement is seen shedding 5 seats.