Monday, April 4, 2011

Iceland votes in a referendum on Icesave next saturday - april 9.

Next saturday,Iceland vill vote in a referendum on the Icesave settlement.
It is about agreement on paying back to the UK and Dutch goverment a few billion kronas.
As it is now ,opinion polls go ,to pay - 55% - and those that do not want to pay - 45%.

Landsbanki ,was the bank that was behind the Icesave account crashed in autumn 2008.
Now the fight is on, one radio station is against paying, and usess the radio station to broadcast their opinion.
Others advertise in radio and papers, for or against paying.
It looks like this is going to be one of the most importants votes in Icelands short history.

If the voters vote NO --- then Iceland will be on the downturn for many years.
But if they vote YES --- then things should be getting better here in Iceland .

Here are photos and video from the protest last october in front of the parliement building .
Click on the photos ,and the will get bigger.






3 comments:

  1. If the voters vote NO --- then Iceland will be on the downturn for many years.
    But if they vote YES --- then things should be getting better here in Iceland .

    Is that your opinion?

    I live in Spain and I'm trying to understand a bit more of what happened in your country.

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  2. I also want to ask this. In the last referendum you were against. What has changed with the new "agreement"?

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  3. The thing that has mainly changed ,are the interests rates - from about 6, something percent - down to - i think - around 3 percent.

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