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New Government Announced Tomorrow

1/10/2017

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The new Independence Party-Reform Party-Bright Future coalition government will be announced tomorrow and the new ministers formally take office on Wednesday. The government agenda is to be presented to the parties’ members tonight and made public tomorrow.
Independence Party leader Bjarni Benediktsson will be prime minister. It is uncertain who else from his party will take a seat in the cabinet, but Ólöf Nordal has been mentioned as one of the most likely candidates. The party will be responsible for five ministries, ruv.is reports.
http://www.ruv.is/frett/ny-rikisstjorn-kynnt-a-morgun

Benedikt Jóhannesson, Reform Party chair and former Iceland Review publisher, is expected to be finance minister. Former Minister of Education Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir and Þorsteinn Víglundsson are also likely to represent the party in government.
It is assumed that leader of Bright Future Óttarr Proppé will take over the Ministry of Health and that Björt Ólafsdóttir from his party will also become minister.
The number of ministries will remain ten in total. A representative of one of the parties will serve as speaker of parliament.
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    Election 2016 Results 

    Invalid/blank votes 5,574
    Total 195,204
    Registered voters 246,515
    ​Turnout 79.19%

    Independence Party (54,990) 29.00% 21 seats
    Left-Green Movement (30,166) 15.91% 10 seats
    Pirate Party (27,449) 14.48% 10 seats
    Progressive Party (21,791) 11.49% 8 seats
    Reform (19,870) 10.48% 7 seats
    Bright Future (13,578) 7.16% 4 seats
    Social Democratic Alliance (10,893) 5.74% 3 seats
    People’s Party (6,707) 3.54 % No seats
    Dawn (3,275) 1.7% No seats
    People’s Front of Iceland (575) 0.30% No seats
    Icelandic National Front (303) 0.16% No seats
    Humanist Party (33) 0.02% No seats

    In brief | Pirate Party
    What: A pro-free speech, anti-authoritarian political party in Iceland
    Formed: 2012

    Founders: A group of anarchists, hackers and internet-freedom activists

    Leader: The party eschews formal leaders but Birgitta Jonsdottir is the most senior of three Pirate lawmakers in Iceland’s parliament

    Pirate policies
    • direct democracy
    • a new national constitution
    • public vetoes over new laws
    • greater scrutiny of the workings of government
    • strict safeguards for individuals’ online and offline privacy
    • public ownership of the country’s natural resources

    “I would like everybody in Iceland to find the pirate within, because the pirate within really represents change and a collective vision for the future.”
    - Birgitta Jonsdottir, Pirate Party lawmaker

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