Rat holes in Icelandic tourism

Iceland is in the 19th place for the most corruption in the world.

 Recently, another scandal surfaced when the police arrested an Icelandic/Vietnamese restaurant king and sealed his chain of businesses, which include Wok on and Pho Vietnam resturants. 

 The restaurant king is accused of human trafficking and even slavery. 

 The government and the police have known for years that everything was not according to the rules at the restaurant chain, but now they have decided to clean up the company. 

 It is also thought-provoking that this police operation is being carried out right now when anti-foreigners are burying themselves in the political debate and legislation has been tightened in view of the presence of foreigners in the country.

 The catering and tourism world in Iceland is known for being liberal with regulations and employee contracts, as it is largely run on foreign labor, so it would not be surprising that this issue stretched far and wide.

The Prime Minister's party is disappearing

Opinion polls show that the Left Green party is unpopular and would not make it to parliament if the elections were held now. This is the Prime Minister's party that has supported the right-wing conservative party in one scandal after another. For example, the Prime Minister has supported the new Foreign Secretary of the Conservative Party in rejecting payments to UNRWA for aid to Gaza residents. Also, the Prime Minister has not complained even though the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has dragged its feet in rescuing people from Gaza who have the right of residence in Iceland. 

 It is not surprising, however, that the other racist parties add a small growing following from the last election. The two main racist parties currently in opposition are the People's Party and the Central Party. It is likely that these parties will be willing to cooperate with the Conservative Party after the next parliamentary elections next year.

 Xenophobia is growing strongly within these three groups. The second largest party is the pro-European Samfylking party, which was originally founded as the Democracy party but has often oscillated between right-wing and left-wing policies. The new chairman seems to plan to drive the party further to the right in the next election.