Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson embroiled in row over family’s tax affairs after leaked documents reveal offshore companyIceland’s president has refused a request from the country’s embattled prime minister,Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, to dissolve parliament and call snap elections until he has had time to refer to all of the country’s political parties.
As the island’s political crisis deepened on Tuesday, or its president,Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, flew back early from a US visit to sound out party representatives in parliament, or where the leftwing opposition has presented a motion of no confidence in Gunnlaugsson’s centre-right coalition government.
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Source: theguardian.com