Icelanders sun zaɓi zabe a yau, Sabtu, bayan rushewar gwamnatin hadaka ta hanyar tarwata zaben gaggawa. Zaben ta yi mahimmanci saboda matsalolin tattalin arziƙi, gida, da kiwon lafiya, wanda suka mamaye yunkurin kamfe.
Mazauna Iceland suna fama da matsalolin inflations da riba mai girma, haka kuma suka zama abubuwan da ke damun jama’a a zaben. Kashi 60% na masu jefa kuri’a sun ce kiwon lafiya, matsalolin tattalin arziƙi, da gida su ne abubuwan da suke damunsu.
Wakilin AFP ya ruwaito cewa Grimar Jonsson, wani mai shirya fina-finan shekaru 48, ya ce, “Ina ganin mun bukaci canji.” Jonsson ya ce ya nemi canjin gwamnati da “kawar da jam’iyyun siyasa na tsohuwar zamani”.
Fiye da kashi 20% na mazauna Iceland suna da asalin ƙasashen waje, amma batun ƙaura bai zama abin damuwa ga jama’a ba. Malamin siyasa Eirikur Bergmann ya ce, “Batun ƙaura ya fi zama abin tattaunawa tsakanin ‘yan siyasa, amma har yanzu bai zama abin damuwa ga jama’a ba”.
Zaben ta fara ne bayan gwamnatin da tsohon firayim minista Bjarni Benediktsson ya jagoranta ta yi murabus a watan Oktoba. Gwamnatin ta yi murabus saboda rikice-rikice kan yadda ake kula da baƙi da neman mafaka.
Ana fargabar cewa wasu masu jefa kuri’a zasu yi tsallewa wajen zuwa ɗakunan zabe saboda hasarar dusar ƙanƙara da iska mai ƙarfi a wasu yankuna.
Yunkurin zaben ya nuna cewa jam’iyyar Social Democratic Alliance, wadda Kristrun Frostadottir ke shugabanta, ita ce ta fi kowa shawara a zaben, tare da kashi 20.4% na goyon baya daga masu jefa kuri’a.