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Red-Green Socialists Take Over Iceland

Steingrimur Sigfusson

Steingrimur Sigfusson

An interim government consisting of the center-left Social Democrat Alliance Party and the Socialist Left Green Movement will govern Iceland until general elections can be held this May.

Johanna Sigurdardottir

Johanna Sigurdardottir

Iceland’s ruling coalition of the center-right Independence Party and SDA collapsed yesterday amid growing protests over an implosion of the country’s banks and stock market. Another political party, the Progressives, and possibly people from outside Parliament will also assist with the caretaker government.

Social Affairs Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir of the SDA is expected to lead the new government. Sigurdardottir has a long history of liberal politics and has an approval rating of nearly 75%. As an openly-out lesbian, she would be the first gay Prime Minister in the world.

Ingibjorg Solon Gisladottir

Ingibjorg Solon Gisladottir

SDA leader Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir and LGM leader Steingrimur Johann Sigfusson now begin putting together a government that emphasises helping Icelandic households out of the current economic catastrophe.

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By NewsGuy – January 27, 2009

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  1. Chaim ben Pesach says

    Left, Right, who gives a damn as long as you don’t have any schvatzes or affirmative blacktion.

    January 27, 2009, 7:39 pm
  2. DA says

    With these two buffoons, Iceland is going from the frying pan into the fire, the people are angry and upset with the collapse but they better beware of a liberal and a lesbian, that’s a recipe for greater disaster. These two socialists are going to take Iceland into the EU which is the New World Order, they will no longer be a sovereign nation .

    January 27, 2009, 8:35 pm
  3. Mark King says

    Like the *United* States you mean?

    January 28, 2009, 5:14 am

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  3. Iceland President: Changes At Central Bank | The Right Perspective linked to this post on January 28, 2009

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  4. Change Comes To Iceland | The Right Perspective linked to this post on February 2, 2009

    [...] positions for the new Red-Green Socialist coalition government in Iceland were announced Sunday, with an agenda to establish “a common ownership of [...]

  5. Icelanders Will Not Get To Vote On EU Membership | The Right Perspective linked to this post on April 15, 2009

    [...] said the current Red-Green Socialist coalition government may be able to come to an agreement on the issue of EU membership if they are able to continue in [...]

  6. Iceland Shifts To The Left | The Right Perspective linked to this post on April 26, 2009

    [...] ruling Red-Green Socialist caretaker government is expected to win 35 seats in the 66-seat parliament, a majority of four. This marks the first [...]

  7. Iceland to Install Lesbian Prime Minister Amid Financial Collapse, Toppled Government « Rady Ananda linked to this post on June 10, 2009

    [...] Bush-Cheney years?).  But confidence in 66-year-old Johanna Sigurdardottir is high, with nearly a 75% approval rating.  She is also the only pol whose ratings increased in the past year.  Last night, Andy Harley of [...]

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