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Panama Papers: Iceland president blocks embattled PM's snap election call
Source: The Guardian
Panama Papers: Iceland president blocks embattled PM's snap election call
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson is embroiled in row over his family’s
tax affairs after leaked documents revealed offshore company
Jon Henley in Reykjavik
Tuesday 5 April 2016 15.05 BST
Iceland’s president has refused a request from the country’s embattled prime minister, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, to dissolve parliament and call snap elections until he has had time to consult all the country’s political parties.
As the island’s political crisis deepened on Tuesday, president Olafur Ragnar Grimsson cut short a visit to the US to sound out party representatives in parliament, where the leftwing opposition on Monday presented a motion of no confidence in Gunnlaugsson’s centre-right coalition government.
Further mass protests were planned in Reykjavik for later on Tuesday amid mounting pressure on the prime minister to resign following revelations in the leaked Panama Papers that his wife owned a secretive offshore investment company with multi-million pound claims on Iceland’s failed banks.
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Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson is embroiled in row over his family’s
tax affairs after leaked documents revealed offshore company
Jon Henley in Reykjavik
Tuesday 5 April 2016 15.05 BST
Iceland’s president has refused a request from the country’s embattled prime minister, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, to dissolve parliament and call snap elections until he has had time to consult all the country’s political parties.
As the island’s political crisis deepened on Tuesday, president Olafur Ragnar Grimsson cut short a visit to the US to sound out party representatives in parliament, where the leftwing opposition on Monday presented a motion of no confidence in Gunnlaugsson’s centre-right coalition government.
Further mass protests were planned in Reykjavik for later on Tuesday amid mounting pressure on the prime minister to resign following revelations in the leaked Panama Papers that his wife owned a secretive offshore investment company with multi-million pound claims on Iceland’s failed banks.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/05/panama-papers-iceland-gunnlaugsson-snap-election-request-turned-down
Earlier in LBN: Panama Papers: Iceland prime minister seeks early poll
