Palace Revolution at the Socialist Party of Iceland

There was a coup in the Socialist Party of Iceland at the party's general meeting in Reykjavík today. A list that had been put up at the head of the list of the ruling forces in the party, with Sanna Magdalena Mörtudóttir and Gunnar Smára Egilsson at the forefront of the faction, had the better of the election for the executive committee. There has been great disunity within the party in recent months. Party members have had public disputes on s…