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Iceland is on track for snap polls after Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson announced on Sunday that the country’s governing coalition has ended. Benediktsson, who leads a coalition between his liberal-conservative Independence Party, the Progressive Party and the Left-Green Movement, said at a Reykjavik press conference the three parties had fallen out over the handling of asylum seekers and energy issues. He is now set to ask President Halla Tómasdóttir to dismiss the government and dissolve parliament on Monday, adding that an early election could take place on November 30. Parliamentary el…

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