Icelanders headed to the polls on Saturday with the issues of immigration, energy policy and the economy playing a central role in the election, according to AP.
European Union membership also resurfaced in the campaign for the first time in more than a decade, Reuters reported, with public support for joining the bloc reaching 45 percent.
Iceland’s Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson dissolved the parliament in October and called the snap election, citing growing disagreements among the three governing parties — his Independence Party, the Progressive Party and the Left-Greens. All three parties in the outgoing government appeared to have lost votes.
