STOCKHOLM, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- A new poll says that 62 percent of Icelanders were planning to vote against the pending Icesave legislation in the upcoming referendum, according to reports from Reykjavik on Wednesday.

    The survey showed that 66 percent of the voters want the legislation to be abolished before the referendum, which is scheduled no later than March 6.

    "This was the third time within a week that Gallup conducted the survey about Icesave. About one week ago when the president just vetoed the legislation, the majority of the people respond to pass the legislation," the report said.

    It also pointed out that in the Jan. 7-8 Gallup poll, the number of respondents who were for and against the legislation was even.

    Earlier reports from Iceland Review Online said the Iceland government was also keen to renegotiate with the British and the Dutch governments about the Icesave issue.

    The Icesave bill is to give a state guarantee to pay 3.8 billion euros (about 5.4 billion U.S. dollars) to the British and Dutch governments, which had partially compensated more than 320,000 of the savers in their countries who lost money in the collapse of the Icelandic online bank Icesave.

    The survey was conducted by Gallup online over the weekend and Monday, with a sample of 3,100 adults.