Polls: Iceland’s Pro-Bitcoin Pirate Party to Take PowerThe party, whose parliamentary group leader Birgitta Jónsdóttir said she would make the country a “Switzerland of bits” if it came to power, now has a shot at governance, experts say.
“It’s gradually dawning on us, what’s happening,” Birgitta Jónsdóttir, leader of the Pirates’ parliamentary group, told UK newspaper the Guardian. “It’s strange and very exciting. But we are well prepared now.”
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A move to the left in Iceland has been several years in the making. However, the recent Panama Papers scandal damaged now-resigned prime minister David Gunnlaugsson so much that snap elections were called. These will be held in October, with Jónsdóttir sensing radical change is in the air.
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