冰島總理因離岸公司醜聞辭職
Iceland’s prime minister resigned yesterday, the first casualty of the global revelations over offshore companies.
冰島總理西格蒙杜爾•戴維•貢勞格鬆(Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson)昨日辭職，成爲全球離岸公司醜聞曝光後的首位落馬者。
For the second time in a decade the island of just 320,000 -people has become a focus of global attention over financial excesses, even as it remains deeply divided over the collapse of its banks in 2008.
這是這個人口只有32萬的國家10年內第二次因金融過度行爲成爲全球關注的焦點，目前冰島仍因2008年國內銀行破產分歧嚴重。
“This is the second phase. The first phase was the practical part of clearing up after a massive banking failure. What we are looking at now is the bankruptcy of politics and -certain politicians,” said Huginn Thorsteinsson, a leftwing political consultant.
左翼政治顧問休金•索爾斯坦鬆(Huginn Thorsteinsson)表示：“這是第二階段。第一階段是在銀行大規模破產後進行清理的實際部分。我們現在關注的是政治和某些政治人士的破產。”
On a day of high drama in Reykjavik, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson first tried to hang on to power by seeking the dissolution of parliament. But after Iceland’s president refused to grant the request, Mr Gunnlaugsson decided to step down as prime minister but carry on as the head of his centre-right Progressive party.
在冰島極具戲劇性的一天，貢勞格鬆起初試圖通過解散議會保留權力。但在冰島總統拒絕這一請求後，貢勞格鬆決定辭去總理職位，但仍繼續擔任他所在的中右翼進步黨(Progressive party)主席一職。
The two-party coalition is aiming to stay in government ahead of elections next year but that could provoke an outcry. As many as 22,000 people on Monday took to the streets of Reykjavik — more than during the 2008-09 financial crisis — to protest against the prime minister’s alleged conduct.
由兩黨組成的執政聯盟計劃在明年大選前仍執政，但可能引發抗議。週一，2.2萬人走上雷克雅未克街頭（超過2008年至2009年金融危機期間）抗議冰島總理被指的行爲。
“It is causing huge anger in Iceland because of the connotations with the banks in the past,” Mr Thorsteinsson said.
索爾斯坦鬆表示：“由於與過去破產銀行的關係，這正引起冰島人民的極大憤慨。”
Mr Gunnlaugsson once owned part of an offshore group, now controlled by his wife, that owned claims in the Icelandic banks that collapsed in 2008, roiling the country’s financial and political systems. Although the economy has recovered since the crisis, Iceland is divided politically.
貢勞格鬆曾經是一家離岸公司的持股者，如今該公司由他的妻子控股，該公司持有在2008年破產的冰島銀行的債權，這些銀行的破產在該國金融和政治體系掀起軒然大波。儘管自金融危機以來冰島經濟已復甦，但該國在政治上仍然分化。
