Leftists on cusp of power as weary Icelanders go to polls


  • World
  • Saturday, 28 Oct 2017

Left Green Movement candidate Katrin Jakobsdottir casts her vote during a snap parliamentary election in Reykjavik, Iceland October 28, 2017. REUTERS/Geirix

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Angry over a string of political scandals, Icelanders may usher a long dominant centre-right party out of the exit door in national elections on Saturday, handing power to a charismatic centre-left opposition leader.

Katrيn Jakobsdَttir, 41, of the Left-Green Movement, has campaigned on a platform of restoring trust in government and leveraging an economic boom to increase public spending.

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