Tomasdottir wins 34.6 percent of the votes to end up being the Nordic nation’s 2nd female president.
Halla Tomasdottir, a businesswoman and financier, has actually won Iceland’s governmental election, topping a congested field of prospects in which the leading 3 finishers were ladies, the nation’s nationwide broadcast service reports.
Tomasdottir, 55, was chosen to the mainly ritualistic post with 34.3 percent of the vote, beating previous Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir, with 25.2 percent, and Halla Hrund Logadottir, with 15.5 percent, RUV stated on Sunday.
Tomasdottir is presently on leave as president of The B Team, an international not-for-profit co-founded by UK organization magnate Richard Branson to promote organization practices concentrated on mankind and the environment, and has workplaces in New York and London.
Iceland’s president holds a mostly ritualistic position in the parliamentary republic, serving as a guarantor of the constitution and nationwide unity. She or he, nevertheless, has the power to ban a legislation or send it to a referendum.
Tomasdottir campaigned as somebody who was above celebration politics and might assist open conversations on basic problems such as the impact of social networks on the psychological health of youths, Iceland’s advancement as a traveler location and the function of expert system.
She will change President Gudni Th Johannesson, who did not look for re-election after 2 four-year terms. Tomasdottir will take workplace on August 1.
Iceland’s 2nd lady president
Iceland, a Nordic island country situated in the North Atlantic, has a long custom of choosing females to high workplace.
Vigdis Finnbogadottir was the very first democratically chosen female president of any country when she ended up being Iceland’s president in 1980.
The nation has actually likewise seen 2 females work as prime minister recently, offering stability throughout years of political chaos.
Johanna Sigurdardottir led the federal government from 2009 to 2013, after the worldwide monetary crisis damaged Iceland’s economy.
Jakobsdottir, 48, ended up being prime minister in 2017, leading a broad union that ended the cycle of crises that had actually set off 3 elections in 4 years. She resigned in April to run for president.
In the nation of 380,000 individuals, any person event 1,500 signatures can run for workplace.
While Jakobsdottir was at times viewed as the preferred, political observers had actually recommended that her background as prime minister might weigh versus her.
Amongst the other primary prospects in the field of 13 were a government teacher, a comic, and an Arctic and energy scholar.