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Sun 03 Mar 2010Icelanders reject repayment plan
Voters in Iceland defied their parliament and international pressure, resoundingly rejecting a €3.8 billion plan to repay Britain and the Netherlands for debts spawned by the collapse of an Icelandic bank.
According to results released today, just over 93 per cent of voters said ‘No’ in yesterday’s ballot, while only 1.8 per cent voted “yes,” according to a count of all but 2,500 of the 143,784 votes cast. The rest were blank or spoiled ballots.
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