Because the citizens of that nation are experiencing the wonders of Milton Friedman’s theories, and so they want to throw the folks out who created this clusterf^%$, with the attendant demonstrations and confrontations with police.

These folks are Viking stock, and I think that soon to be former Prime Minister Geir Haarde, who is not standing for reelection, realized that his head would be on a pike if he did not call for new elections.