Protesters tell embattled Iceland PM to ‘go to Tortola’
![Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson reportedly failed to declare his stake in an offshore company based in the [British] Virgin Islands. The revelation has made Icelanders “mad” at their government, with some demanding a no-confidence vote and the PM’s resignation. Photo: AFP/Getty Images](https://www.virginislandsnewsonline.com/cache/images/800x_i_Iceland_PM_01.jpg)
Protesters held various placards, some of them in English, expressing their anger at the revelations.
One placard had obscene language, saying Prime Minister: F***K OFF, GO TO TORTOLA.
Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson reportedly failed to declare his stake in an offshore company based in the [British] Virgin Islands. The revelation has made Icelanders “mad” at their government, with some demanding a no-confidence vote and the PM’s resignation.
It was announced today, April 5, 2016, in several news outlets that Mr Gunnlaugsson had resigned, however, a newspaper in Iceland, Iceland Monitor, has since stated that the Prime Minister's office in Iceland issued a press statement in English to the international press saying that the Prime Minister has not resigned, merely stepped aside for an unspecified amount of time and will continue to serve as the Chairman of the Progressive Party.
According to the Iceland Monitor, people were angered not only by the revelations of their PM’s unreported accounts, but also by his reaction to the protest. “It’s not like everyone is going to attend,” Gunnlaugsson said in an interview, sparking even more fury.
When asked by the reporter of Icelandic Channel 2 News if he had, at any point, considered resigning in light of the latest revelations, Gunnlaugsson said that he would not resign due to this or any other matter, because his government had achieved “amazing results in very important issues,” and “it’s important that it gets to finish that work.”
He also rejected an idea of stepping aside during the course of the investigation, saying “Simply accusing someone of something in order to force them to resign is not in harmony with how we want our society to function.”
Responding to the accusations against his wife, Anna Palsdottir, the PM stressed that she had always paid taxes in Iceland, even while owning a “foreign” company. According to Gunnlaugsson, it would be wrong to label the firm an “offshore company,” as “it has always been taxed in Iceland.”
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34 Responses to “Protesters tell embattled Iceland PM to ‘go to Tortola’”
Bring it down and keep talking about corruption and lost money, whether it is taking $8 mil promised to EE seweage and using it for another project, or "borrowing" from Social Security, or outright "losing" $35 mil on the TPP. There are consequences, yet the ministers running this show are not taking any responsibility with taxpayers money.
http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-O56QVZ6K50YH01-0M54M5EP6DQPJ338S8MEA0RC7A
This thing just keeps growing?
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/06/mossack-fonseca-oil-firms-petropars-iranian-state-sanctions-panama-papers
Hope the players to be are doing something to plug this leak.
Link: http://farandulife.com/2016/04/governments-face-fallout-from-offshore-accounts-report/