Reykjavik: Iceland has chosen parliament of the majority of women, landmarks for gender equality in the North Atlantic Island country, in voting which sees central parties making the biggest profits.
After all the sounds were calculated on Sundays, female candidates held 33 seats in Parliament 63-seat Iceland, ALthing.
The three parties in the outgoing coalition government led by Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir won a total of 37 seats in Saturday’s vote, two more than in the last election, and apparently will continue to be in power.
The historical milestone for women comes despite poor results for the parties on the left, where women candidates are more often crocodiles.
Politics Professor Silja Bara Omarsdottir said the gender quota applied by Lean parties who leaned over the past decade had succeeded in creating new norms throughout the Icelandic political spectrum.
“It’s no longer acceptable to ignore gender equality when choosing candidates,” he said.
The opinion poll has suggested a victory for the parties leaning on the left in unexpected elections, which saw 10 parties compete for chairs.
But the independence party really took the biggest part of the voice, won 16 seats, seven of them were held by women.
Progressive party centric celebrates the biggest gain, won 13 seats, five more than the last time.
Before the election, the two parties formed a three-party Iceland coalition government, along with Jakobsdottir’s left green party.
The message lost a few seats, but save eight, defeating polls predictions.
The three ruling parties have not announced whether they will work together for other terms, but given the strong support of voters that might occur.
It will take days, if not weeks, for the new government to be formed and announced.
Climate change has ranked high in the election agenda in Iceland, a glacier-studded volcanic island of around 350,000 people in the North Atlantic.
The summer is very warm by Iceland’s standards – with 59 days of temperatures above 20 degrees Celsius (68 F) – and a shrink glacier has helped encourage global warming on the political agenda.
But it did not seem to be translated into an increase in support for one of the four leaning-lean parties who campaigned to cut carbon emissions with more than Iceland committed to the Paris climate agreement.
Among the entry parliamentarians were the oldest and youngest parliamentarians who had sat in Iceland: owners with 72-year-old burgers Tomas Tomasson and 21-year-old law students Lenya Run Karim, a daughter of immigrant kurds from the anti-establishment pirate party.
“I want to increase Iceland’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers,” he told The Associated Press, vowed to speak for young people in parliament.
“Our ideas need to be heard more.”
Iceland chose the majority of her first women’s parliament
