Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson's Independence Party trailed the Social Democrats with 19.4 percent, down from the 24.4 percent it won in 2021, marking the worst result the party had ever recorded.

His Independence Party was trailing the Social Democrats ... in power unscathed since the 2008 financial crisis -- which hit Iceland's over-indebted banks. "In the last 15 years, voters in Iceland ...

In Iceland, the center-left Social Democratic Alliance emerged as the largest party in a snap election, final tallies showed Sunday. In winning the Saturday's election, the opposition party ...

Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson’s Independence Party was trailing the Social Democrats ... since the 2008 financial crisis — which hit Iceland’s over-indebted banks.

Iceland's ruling Independence Party lost out to the centre-left Social Democratic Alliance in snap elections on Saturday. The Icelandic government notice said the total allowable catch followed ...

The two big newspapers are Morgunblaðið and Fréttablaðið. The former is the mouthpiece of the centre-right Independence Party, the most powerful one in Iceland. Traditionally, they are the nexus of ...

A Left-Green politician, Ms Jakobsdottir formed a coalition government in 2017 with the conservative Independence Party and centre-right Progressive Party. While acknowledging Iceland's progress ...

Iceland's president presented a new government ... The new coalition replaces a government by Bjarni Benediktsson's conservative Independence Party which came second in the election, called ...

vowing to stabilise the economy after emerging as Iceland's biggest party in November's elections. The Social Democratic Alliance beat out the governing Independence Party to win the snap ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Iceland's centre-left Social Democratic ... Alternatively, current prime minister and leader of the conservative Independence Party, Bjarni Benediktsson, could continue ...