Icelandic parliamentary election 2016

[Famous Mortimer]

Does anybody know why the pirate party currently is leading the polls in Iceland by huge margins?

Because the conservatives, social democrats, and even the traditionally third place liberals (currently in office) all had a shot, and they blew it.

I am a little bit confused though as to why the lard left (Green-Left Movement) never got a shot though *shrug*

[Famous Mortimer]

This definitely has the possibility of being the most interesting elections in a while. Personally, I like Bright Future because of Óttarr Proppé's picture on Wikipedia. I just fear for Iceland's future under the Pirate Party, because direct democracy seems too risky. Furthermore, I disagree with some of the ideas of pirate politics. But

In general, I am opposed to direct democracy but Iceland only has 300,000 people. If there's anywhere where it could work, it would be Iceland.

[Famous Mortimer]

So this new Revival party is the small c conservative/non-libertarian faction of the IP broken away?