Center-left party wins early elections in Iceland

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Icelandic voters joined the global trend of punishing incumbent parties in a parliamentary election, in which a center-left party won the largest percentage of votes in this North Atlantic island nation. teleSUR

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00:00The opposition social democratic alliance has won the early legislative elections in Iceland and could form a government

00:05But it would need the support of two other political forces according to the final tally released by the electoral authority

00:11With all the votes counted the Social Democrats have obtained 20.8%

00:15ahead of the conservative Independence Party or the Prime Minister Jarni Benediktsson

00:20with 19.4% and the Liberal Reform and Order Opposition Force with 15.8%

00:26The result represents the second electoral defeat of the Independence Party since Iceland separated from Denmark in

00:321944 a hard blow for the coalition that has governed for the last seven years

00:43And the

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