IJsland krijgt eurosceptisch centrum-rechts

Fed up with years of belt tightening and soaring debt, Icelanders ousted the Social Democrats late on Saturday, handing the biggest defeat to any ruling party since independence from Denmark in 1944 and offering a new chance to the very parties that presided over its economic rise and collapse.

“The best solution would be a two-party coalition; that would be the strongest type of government capable to handling the tough decisions ahead,” Independence Party leader Bjarni Benediktsson, 43, said yesterday, calling a coalition of the two centre-right parties a “natural first choice”.

[...Both parties] argued that Iceland should end talks to join the European Union, preserving independence.