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People line-up to ballot astatine a polling presumption successful Gardabae, Iceland, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021. Iceland is heading to the polls for wide elections connected Saturday with 9 parties moving for seats astatine the North Atlantic land nation's Parliament, oregon Althing. Polls suggest Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir's Left Green Party could look a mediocre outcome, ending the existent coalition. (AP Photo/Brynjar Gunnarsson)

REYKJAVIK – Icelanders were voting Saturday successful a wide predetermination dominated by clime change, with an unprecedented fig of governmental parties apt to triumph parliamentary seats.

Polls suggest determination won’t beryllium an outright winner, triggering analyzable negotiations to physique a conjugation government.

A grounds 9 parties could transverse the 5% threshold needed to suffice for seats successful Iceland's parliament, the Althing. Upstart parties see the Socialist Party, which is promising to shorten the enactment week and nationalize Iceland's sportfishing industry.

High turnout is expected, arsenic one-fifth of eligible voters person already formed absentee ballots.

Climate alteration is precocious among voters' concerns successful Iceland, a glacier-studded volcanic land federation of astir 350,000 radical successful the North Atlantic.

An exceptionally lukewarm summertime by Icelandic standards — 59 days of temperatures supra 20 degrees Celsius (68 F) — and shrinking glaciers person helped thrust planetary warming up the governmental agenda.

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Polls amusement beardown enactment for left-leaning parties promising to chopped c emissions by much than Iceland is already committed to nether the Paris clime agreement. The state has pledged to go c neutral by 2040, a decennary up of astir different European nations.

The existent authorities is simply a conjugation of 3 parties spanning the governmental spectrum from near to center-right and led by Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir of the Left Green Party. It was formed successful 2017 aft years of governmental instability.

Jakobsdottir remains a fashionable premier minister, but polls suggest her enactment could fare poorly, ending the ongoing coalition.

“The state is facing large decisions arsenic we crook from the pandemic,” Jakobsdottir said during a televised statement connected Friday nighttime successful which enactment leaders vowed to extremity Iceland’s reliance connected lipid and galore wanted to rise taxes connected the rich.

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