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met President Halla Tómasdóttir on 15 October to submit his government’s resignation. The president accepted the resignation and asked the current government to serve in a caretaker role until a new government could be formed after the parliamentary election set for 30 November. Bjarni Benediktsson is also the leader of Iceland's Independence Party.
The Social Democrats (Samfylkingin) became the largest party, but without its own majority in the Althingi, after the elections on 30 November. The Conservative Party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurin) came in second with 19.4% of the vote.
The Green voters and those to the left of the Social Democrats - 20,000 people - divided their votes between three different parties, all of which came below the threshold for seats in the Althingi. "Many people think it's undemocratic," says Ólafur Þ. Harðarson.
A Government consisting of the Social Democratic Alliance, the Liberal Reform Party and the People‘s Party was formed 21 Dec. The new government is headed by Kristrún Frostadóttir, the chairman of the Social Democratic Alliance.
Minister of Social Affairs, Labour and Housing is Inga Sæland, chairman of the People‘s Party.
The new government has agreed on a new political platform. A national referendum on continuing negotiations on Iceland’s membership of the European Union will be held no later than 2027.
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