As the time to vote on a new Icesave legislation draws near, Icelanders are uncertain if the new
Icesave legislation will be passed through a referendum, according to a report reaching here from Reykjavik on Thursday.
A new survey conducted by Media and Market Research shows that 52 percent of those who responded said they plan to pass the new Icesave legislation in the upcoming referendum on April 9, while 48 percent of respondents are intending to reject the legislation, the Iceland Review reported.
The survey was conducted among 900 people with 23.1 percent of respondents who are undecided.
Iceland reached an agreement with Britain and the Netherlands in December to pay back the latter the money they compensated to the customers of the Icesave on-line bank which collapsed after the 2008
financial crisis.
The new Icesave legislation is much in favor of Iceland which lowered the interest from 5.5 percent to 3.3 percent for the British part and
3.0 percent for the Dutch.
The Icesave deal was approved in the Icelandic parliament last month, but President Olafur Grimsson again refused to sign the deal and
instead decided to send the measure to a national referendum.
The president also refused to sign the initial agreement due to public opposition. The president's refusal resulted in a national referendum
that voted down the bill in March 2010.