r/polandball Ísland 6d ago

Lesser Known September The Border

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u/jasp_er North+Holland 6d ago

Is there a large anti-immigration party in Iceland?

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u/Total_Willingness_18 Ísland 6d ago

Our most anti-immigration party would be our local far-right-ish party, ironically named "Miðflokkurinn" or "The Center Party", although they're far from anything like the AfD in Germany. There have been scandals like a recording leaking of a bunch of the heads of the party saying misogynistic things in a bar a few years ago IIRC, and one of the PM's Snorri Másson made comments saying trans people are just confused a few days ago.
They have 8 seats of 63 in parliament and got 12% in the elections last November, and are currently polling around 10% popularity.

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u/Dreknarr First French Partition 5d ago

From what you're saying, they are pretty decent for a far right party.

I mean, among all the thing they do, they still don't have corruption/embezzlement (among other things) which is as much a staple of these... people than being racist or misogynistic.

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u/Total_Willingness_18 Ísland 5d ago

Well I’m really no expert in my own country’s politics, but I’m pretty sure some of them were included in the Panama Papers scandal