Iceland constitutional assembly wants court case re-opened

Some of those elected to Iceland’s constitutional assembly will today appeal to the Supreme Court of Iceland to reconsider its decision to nullify the election on technical grounds. The ruling was wrong, they claim.

The plaintiffs claim that the decision was an administrative one and not a proper legal judgement, RUV reports.

Under Icelandic law, if a court judgement is partly based on incomplete or wrong information, it should be reinvestigated. The group claims that the Supreme Court’s decision was based on incomplete information as the court did not heed its own research findings in making sure the electoral deficiencies it identified actually made any difference. Among the deficiencies was the fact that ballots were numbered, leading the court to rule that votes could have been traced to voters. The plaintiffs argue that the court did not go into whether this did happen or whether it would have been easy or even practically possible outside the realm of theory.

At the same time, the leaders of the main political parties have been meeting over the issue to discuss the best course of action. They plan to meet the 25 elected committee members later this week.

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