David Cameron, whose hundreds of people demanded the resignation outside Downing Street, admitted Saturday that he would “have to manage the business of Panama Papers, evoking the offshore company run by his father. A large anti-government demonstration in Reykjavik was also preparing for the sixth consecutive day of protests have already brought down the Icelandic Prime Minister.
In London, despite the encouragement of Edward Snowden on Twitter, supporters of a departure of David Cameron struggling to mobilize as supported by only a few isolated voices in the opposition Labour party.
in front of the gates of 10 Downing Street, they were hundreds to chant “Cameron must go “wearing Panama hats and some Hawaiian shirts for the more adventurous under wet skies. They then headed to the big hotel where, just two kilometers away, the British Prime Minister had just address delegates of the Conservative Party, gathered in congress to prepare the local elections in May.
“It was not a great week,” commented bluntly David Cameron, making immediate reference to the case who poisons her daily since last Sunday: the revelation that his father Ian, who died in 2010, had led an investment fund in the Bahamas, where he was, as he later admitted, he himself shares. Nothing illegal, insisted the Prime Minister. But it took four releases convoluted his services before he finally decides to recognize on Thursday night that he had owned shares in the offshore company.
“I learned the lesson”
“I know I should have better manage this case, do not blame my advisors, the fault lies in me, I learned the lesson,” he said before Congress . He then renewed his promise to release “soon” its tax returns for the past year, a first for a British Prime Minister.
Too late, as the leader of the Labour opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, who said Friday night that “the Prime Minister has lost the confidence of the British,” but stopped to ask for his resignation.
to say that David Cameron out of a week and even a particularly trying month. Before the case of Panama Papers, he had to deal with the crisis in the steel industry and the charge of British jobs sacrificed on the altar of good relations with China. He also had to grapple with the eternal divisions of the Conservative party over Europe which culminated mid-March with the surprise resignation of Iain Duncan Smith, the Eurosceptic Labour Minister.
On Saturday, the time to round up his troops before the local elections in May, the Prime Minister, who is struggling to convince the British to vote in favor of maintaining the UK in the European Union, made only a brief reference the June 23 referendum. As if he had enough problems like that. On Friday, a YouGov poll showed his approval rating had dropped to the lowest since July 2013, with 58% unfavorable opinions.
New rally in Reykjavik
In Reykjavik, the Icelandic opposition was testing it on Saturday its ability to mobilize at a new rally in Parliament from 14 hours. The event, such as those that occurred in the same place every day since Monday, should be without party flag or organizations. This historic mobilization has already led to the resignation of Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, including the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) found that he had assets in a tax haven.
While the right-wing majority has decided to remain in power by simply appointing a new head of government, Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson, protesters demanding fresh elections. The opposition of left and centrist lost a battle Friday with the rejection of a motion of censure that its members have defended passionately in Parliament, in vain against a right that remains united in turmoil.
the Panama Papers scandal also rebounded in the Netherlands Saturday when two newspapers claim that the Dutch organization Solidaridad development aid, known to have participated in the foundation of the fair trade label Max Havelaar, had an international network of mailboxes companies. “These claims are false. It is in no way a question of tax evasion, the activities developed in Panama just are not taxable, “responded the NGO on its website.
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