Second attempt to form Iceland government fails

The Left-Green Party suspended talks with four other parties.

Leader of the Left-Green movement in Iceland Katrín Jakobsdóttir | Halldor Kolbeins/AFP via Getty Images

Iceland’s Left-Green Party on Wednesday failed to form a government, potentially paving the way for the anti-establishment Pirate Party to try to reach a coalition, The Guardian reported.

The Left-Green Party suspended talks with four other parties after they could not agree on health and education funding issues, party leader Katrín Jakobsdóttir said.

Jakobsdóttir said she had not decided if she hands back the mandate on forming a government to the President.

Earlier efforts by the conservative Independent Party, that emerged as the biggest after the election late last month, also did not reach a government.

Both the Left-Green movement and the Pirate Party, received 10 seats in the vote.

Iceland’s elections followed after the Panama Papers revelations led to the resignation of the prime minister.

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