The referendum carried out this Saturday on Iceland had a positive result (93%) for all those who believe that shouldn’t be the poor to pay the bill left for richest, but the result is considered in somehow ineffective, therefore nothing guarantees that the public opinion is the biggest weight of the balance. 

Iceland's parliament has voted a motion on December on a controversial plan to repay Britain and the Netherlands over the 2008 collapse of the Icesave bank. But many Icelandic voters said repayment terms were unfair, and President Grimsson vetoed the bill.

 

Meanwhile, the Nordic neighbours of Iceland - Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway - had agreed to loan 1,8 billion Euros to help the Icelandic economy to recover from the deep crisis. But Sweden threat now not to loan the amount of money that had promised, in case that Reykjavik follows what the Icelandic voters had decided in the referendum, not paying to the United Kingdom and Holland the reimbursement for the customers affected by the bankruptcy of the Icelandic bank Icesave. 

 

Drifa Snaedal, secretary-general of the Left-Green Movement Party, of Iceland, confessed, this Sunday, in the International Conference of Women, in Copenhagen, her concern regarding the situation of the country and the entrance in the UE.

 

The general secretary considers that not yet the time to speak of deep crisis, but of a great recession: “we still have health systems, schools and social services, but the problem lays on the great economical depression brought up by the capitalist and patriarchal system.”  For Drifa, Iceland is a country that has been recently devastated by the economic interests, but that it still offers relatively good life conditions explained by a good social system developed three decades ago. Iceland has the greater fertility rate, but also the lower unemployment rate for Women (10%). However, the situation is getting worse day by day “because of the changes in the power and of the bankruptcy of the banks. The only way of solving the problem is being radical; it is to deconstruct the power, to analyze it and to construct it again.” - The Secretary General defended.