''While Donald Trump’s surprise victory over Hillary Clinton in the US
presidential race is the starkest example of the failure of the
centre-left to confront the rise of right-wing populism, a similar
pattern has already been set across Europe.
Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 29 October. They had
been planned for next spring, but were brought forward after protesters
forced the resignation of the prime minister, Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, in
April. He and his wife, along with the finance and interior ministers,
were implicated in the Panama Papers. Both Gunnlaugsson’s Progressive
Party and its coalition partner, the conservative Independence Party,
were embroiled in the scandal..''
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