WORLD IN BRIEF : ICELAND : Polls Show Premier at Risk in Election
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Icelanders, some traveling by boat or horseback, voted in elections to their 1,065-year-old Parliament as opinion polls showed Prime Minister David Oddsson in danger of losing power. A television poll suggested that his Independence Party and its Social Democrat coalition partner, in power since 1991, would fall two seats short of a majority in the 63-seat Althing, founded by Viking settlers in AD 930. The campaign centered on the economy, the dismantling of agricultural subsidies and whether to join the European Union.
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