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Sfs Hopes that the Althingi Will See the Pain that Comes with the Bill.

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The Icelandic Fisheries Association has issued a strong statement after the majority of the Althingi agreed to activate Article 71 of the Parliamentary Act, which limits the speaking time of members of parliament. This comes after an Icelandic record for speaking time was broken earlier this week. In a statement by the SFS, written by the association's chairman and managing director, Gunnþór Ingvarsson and Heiðrún Lind Marteinsdóttir, it is stat…

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The Icelandic Fisheries Association has issued a strong statement after the majority of the Althingi agreed to activate Article 71 of the Parliamentary Act, which limits the speaking time of members of parliament. This comes after an Icelandic record for speaking time was broken earlier this week. In a statement by the SFS, written by the association's chairman and managing director, Gunnþór Ingvarsson and Heiðrún Lind Marteinsdóttir, it is stat…

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There are five precedents in parliamentary history for the president to limit speaking time on a particular issue. Mörður Arnason, a former MP, listed the examples where the Parliamentary Procedure Act has been used to block debate in the parliament chamber in an article he wrote in 2013: Mörður wrote: “On April 7, 1937, there was intense debate in the upper house of the Althing on a bill on the State Herring Mills, which was moved by two member…

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