The parlamentarians of the civil movement are still thinking about if they intend to continue to work for the movement after great disputes regarding law and its future at the national meeting yesterday. Political scientist says the lack of organizing and experience is putting its mark on the party and impossible to say if it survives through out the term.

There has been great activity in the civil movement lately. Thrainn Bertelsson one of the four parliamentarians of the movement resigned from the party because of inside disputes.

Then the CEO of the parliament party resigned and the chairman of the board of the civil movement also left the movement. The lastest was yesterday at the first national meetng of the civil movement were three parlamentarians who rushed out of the meeting, Birgitta, Thor and Margret suddently because law were approved with the majority of the votes which goes directly against their will. They are now thinking about if they are going to continue to work for the movement.

The atmosphere was extremely electric at the national meeting yesterday and it was most visible when a member of the board of the movement Gudmundur Andri Skulason and the parlamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir had a verbal fight in front of the camera.

But it can be said that the weather shifts quickly because there was a completely different tone with then during the election wake of the civil movement in April last. "We are completely in step with each other and we have solved all of our issues," said Thor Saari.

"I thnk that this was a gathering of people with different oppinions but similar expectations about changes," says Einar Mar Thordarson, political scientist about the problems of the movement.

Einar says that it is very difficult to say if the civil movement will survive through out the elected term. It is clear that the parliamentarians are going to have their seat during the term. It is impossible to say if the movement will survive the next elections. The history is not in  the favour of new parties like the civil movement.

News Article by noname
Translated by Anya
Original Article in Icelandic

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