Voting closes in Iceland’s knife-edge EU referendum

Iceland’s enactment has promised to honour immoderate the country’s radical decide.

Voting has closed successful Iceland’s referendum connected resuming rank negotiations with the European Union.

Voting stations closed connected Saturday, but it could instrumentality respective hours for a wide triumph for either the “yes” oregon “no” campy to emerge.

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The referendum does not person exit polls, and ballot counting lone began erstwhile voting stations closed.

Polling suggests the ballot is on a knife-edge, with antithetic surveys putting either broadside narrowly ahead, but nary straying much than a fewer points from an adjacent 50/50 split.

The ballot comes 13 years aft Iceland, past led by a Eurosceptic government, paused EU accession talks.

The state is presently governed by the pro-EU Social Democratic Alliance, which called the ballot and promised to honour immoderate the Icelandic nationalist decides.

If Icelanders ballot “yes”, the state would apt commencement years of negotiations with Brussels to hammer retired rank terms. It would past clasp a 2nd referendum connected whether to formally go portion of the EU.

Security, the comparatively sluggish Icelandic economy, and the aboriginal of the Icelandic currency, the krona, person each been important themes successful the run-up to the vote.