Birgitta Jonsdottir leads the Pirate Party, set up by a group of outsiders and activists in 2012 with the same name as protest parties in other countries, and it would get a record 43 percent of the vote, according to an opinion poll released on Wednesday. Consistently topping surveys in the past year, the Pirates’ popularity surged after the release this week of the Panama Papers forced Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson to quit over the disclosure his wife owned an offshore company with claims on Icelandic banks.

Source: Panama Papers: Iceland names new PM but Pirate Party expected to take election | SBS News