Benediktsson's Independence Party secured 14 seats with 19.4 percent of the vote, down from the 24.4 percent it won in 2021, marking the worst result the party had ever recorded. In third place ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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