:brainworms: everywhere.
They would maybe have got an MP in if there was no 5% threshhold.
The bloomer take is that the government collapses due to disagreements about who becomes prime minister, and a center left coalition emerges. It's not likely.
Why do conservatives literally look the same? Every conservative man is either a douchebag with one of those Drew Durnil haircuts (young) or a fat dude with a short beard (old). There's also the conservative woman look, typically white+blonde but the color changes sometimes.
The bloomer take is that the government collapses due to disagreements about who becomes prime minister, and a center left coalition emerges. It’s not likely.
They 'fix' that issue here by indefinitely staying in the process of forming a government. This has the added benefit for them that they can't really be held accountable. Officially a transitional government has limited power but, alas, we're also in an indefinite crisis at the moment they can take full advantage off. And they go on to ignore motions passed with a majority by passing it on to the 'next government' . :shrug-outta-hecks:
Framsóknarflokkurinn (the Progressive Party) is now the second-biggest party in Iceland and the stand-out winner when it comes to gains in parliament. The party took 17.3 percent of the vote and has 13 seats, which is five more than in the last term.
The biggest party remains Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn (the Independence Party) on 24.4 percent of the vote, which means 16 MPs in the next parliament; unchanged from the past four years.
Vinstri grænir (the Left Greens) received 12.6 percent of the national vote and receive eight seats in Alþingi, which is three fewer than at the last election (though only one less than the party had for most of the last term, after two MPs quit).
The three governing parties therefore have 37 seats between them and a large majority. The leaders of the three parties have repeatedly said they will discuss continuing in office if their majority holds.
This seems pretty much locked up
Cool how they "equalized" the elected parliament by forcing it to go from 33 women and 30 men to 33 men and 30 women.
It was an honest counting error apparently. There is a convoluted system of equalization seats, and a wrong count in one constituency has a domino effect on the rest of them. This is where every vote counts.
Some parties have demanded a recount in a another constituency where 7 votes were between two parties.