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Viewing cable 07REYKJAVIK127, Iceland: One third of voters still undecided two weeks
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07REYKJAVIK127 | 2007-05-02 16:04 | 2011-01-13 05:05 | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | Embassy Reykjavik |
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 REYKJAVIK 000127
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TAGS: PGOV PREL SENV EIND IC
SUBJECT: Iceland: One third of voters still undecided two weeks
before parliamentary elections
Refs: A) Reykjavik 114
B) Reykjavik 125
¶1. (U) Summary: National opinion polls taken two weeks out show the
current government coalition holding a slim lead ahead of Icelandic
parliamentary elections on May 12. The larger of the two parties in
government, the Independence Party, has gained in strength enough to
offset losses by its junior partner, the Progressive Party,
according to current polls. However, nearly a third of voters are
undecided at this late stage. This may be due to a popular sense
that environmental issues have lost their "flavor of the month"
status after a local referendum put the kibosh on aluminum smelter
expansion plans in a suburb of Reykjavik. As a result, no single
issue is driving voter preferences. This may play into the hands of
the current government, or, as some pundits argue, could open the
door for a (possibly unstable) three-party coalition to take the
helm. End summary.
¶2. (U) Gallup and daily newspaper Frettabladid each released their
latest polling data on voter preferences over the weekend of April
28-29, two weeks ahead of Icelandic elections to the Althingi
(parliament). The results were as follows:
Percentage of voters expressing a preference (Gallup/Frettabladid):
Independence (IP): 39/40
Social Democratic Alliance (SDA): 21/23
Left-Green (LG): 21/18
Progressive (PP): 10/10
Liberal (LP): 5/5
Iceland Movement (IM): 2/3
Undecided/no preference stated: 18 and 35 percent of respondents,
respectively.
¶3. (U) The Gallup data shows a decline for the IP from previous
polls, though the party has gained in comparison to its standing in
previous Frettabladid polling (Ref A). In all other respects, the
two polls show roughly the same trends. The PP's slide has stopped,
though the party will lose roughly half its current seats in the
Althingi. Though the "right-green" Iceland Movement seems to have
peaked in support, it still looks set to undermine the Left-Green
party's dreams of riding a "green wave" to power as the larger
member of a two-party leftist government. That said, the Social
Democratic Alliance would still be forced to deal with the LG as
equals rather than a fringe party.
¶4. (SBU) Most significantly, the results show the current IP-PP
coalition holding power, though only by a single seat once results
are broken down by voting district. Some here have fallen back on
conventional wisdom dictating that the Independence Party always
performs worse than the polls indicate, while the Progressives
generally do better than expected. (Note: A prominent
counter-example to the latter was the Progressive's dismal
performance in municipal elections across the country last year,
forcing then-party leader and PM Halldor Asgrimsson to resign. End
note.) If the PP fails to live up to its end of this "bargain,"
however, it would open the door to a center-left coalition of the
SDA, Left-Greens, and Progressives. One prominent former Prime
Minister views this as the most likely outcome, and told Reykjavik's
diplomatic corps at an off-record briefing that this would usher in
a period of political instability given the strong differences on
economic and industrial policy among these three parties.
¶5. (U) A large part of the instability reflected in these polls is
the share of undecided voters (over a third in the Frettabladid
poll, which featured a larger sample size) just two weeks prior to
the election. Observers point to the town of Hafnarfjordur's March
31 referendum on expansion of the aluminum smelter there, which
opposition parties hoped to use to build momentum heading into the
Althingi elections (Ref B). After the town voted to reject the
expansion plans, environmental issues seem to have lost their
salience for a large part of the electorate. The Frettabladid poll
indicated that among the same respondents environmental issues have
slipped to fifth (previously first) on the list of key election
matters, behind social welfare, education, the economy, and taxes.
Pundits argue that the Hafnarfjordur vote served as a catharsis for
voters outside the town, who now feel free to vote their preference
without having to use their vote on a purely environmental message.
¶6. (SBU) Comment: As the opposition parties appear to be searching
for a new key issue now that environmental protection has lost some
of its resonance, the government parties continue to hope that they
will enjoy the advantage of incumbency and Iceland's recent economic
prosperity. If predictions of a three-party center-left coalition
are to be believed, a poor showing by the Progressives may indeed
put them in a stronger "kingmaker" position than they would be by
throwing their lot in with the Independence Party. IP stalwarts
have told Post that a continued IP-PP coalition would reflect the
PP's diminished share more so than the current government, in which
REYKJAVIK 00000127 002 OF 002
the Progressives hold fully half the cabinet seats. The
Progressives may feel they would have more leverage in an SDA-LG-PP
coalition to get the ministries they want, though it is hard to
imagine what policies and programs such a government could agree
on.
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