Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, former leader of the Social Democrats has acknowledged that she was involved in raising and accepting unusually large donations from businesses in 2006. She says that accepting those donations was unnatural in light of what has happened since and shouldn’t have happened. She then makes that point that in 2006 this was not considered unusual.
Most of these donations came from companies linked to Baugur Group.
What must her successor, Johanna Sigurdardottir think of this? Her career as one of the top politicians within the Social Democratic movement has been remarkable because of her stance that political parties should open up their books to the public, something that did not happen until finally she became prime minister.
Those who supported the Social Democrats wanted to believe that their party was the counterweight against the supposedly corrupt Independence Party, with its unnatural ties to Icelandic businesses. Somewhere along the way the party became what it despised the most. Ingibjorg Solrun has to face that this happened during her leadership.
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