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Iceland to Hold Snap Parliamentary Polls on Saturday

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Iceland will vote in snap parliamentary elections on Saturday to elect the Nordic country’s 63-seat parliament.
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Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson called the snap election after dissolving the coalition government of the conservative Independence Party, the center-right Progressive Party and the leftist Greens in October, citing strong disagreements over migration policy.
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The latest Maskina poll on voting preferences put Social Democrats ahead with 20.4%, followed by the Liberal Reform Party (Renewal) at 19.2%, the Independence Party at 14.5%, the Center Party at 11.6%, the People’s Party at 10.8%, the Progressive Party at 7.8%, and the Greens at 3.7%.
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