Politics

We decited to write about Icelandic politics and politicions.

The Icelandic Althing, the parlament of Iceland, was founded in 930 on Þingvellir. In Iceland there is parliamentary representative democratic republic. The prime-minister is the head of the goverment who is usually formend by two political parties. The prime-ministier is usually the head of the party in charge who got a larger number of votes. Today the prime-minister is Geir Hilmar Haarde who is the head of the Independence party.

The Present government is formend by the Independence party (XD) and Social Democratic Alliance(XS). The ministers of iceland are twelve. Forsetisráðherra, the prime-minister: Geir H. Haarde(XD), Dóms-og Kirkjumálaráðherra, the minister of justice: Björn Bjarnason(XD), viðskiptaráðherra, the Minister of Trade: Björgvin Guðni Sigurðsson(XS), sjávarútvegs-og landbúnaðarráðherra, Minister of Agriculture: Einar Kristinn Guðfinnsson(XD), Menntamálaráðherra, Minister of Culture and Education: Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir(XD), utanríkisráðherra, Minister of Foreign Affairs: Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir(XS), Iðnaðarráðherra, Minister of Manufacturing Industries: Össur Skarphéðinsson(XS), fjármálaráðherra, Minister of Finance: Árni Matthías Mathiesen(XD), heilbrigðisráðherra, Minister of Health: Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson(XD), félags-og tryggingamálaráðherra, Minister of Social Affairs: Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir(XS), umhverfisráðherra, Minister of the Environment, Þórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir(XS) and samgönguráðherra, Minister for Transport, Kristján Lúðvík Möller(XS).

These twelve persons all come from Social Democratic Alliance or Independence Party.
Today the president is Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson and he used to be the Minister of Finance and was the head of People's Alliance. 
Although the parliament is highly interesting we it more exciting to follow the City Council of Reykjavík. Today the mayor of the capital, Reykjavík is now Ólafur Friðirik Magnússon who represents the Liberalism Party. In the city council there are 15 voted representatives voted from 5 different parties. Today the majority is formed by The Liberalism Party and the Independence Party.


The parties:
The Progressive Party or Framsóknarflokkurinn was founded December 16th 1916 with the merge of Bændaflokkurinn and óháðir Bændur. It is an agrarian, liberal and centrist party The party is mostly followed by farmers and people in country. However they have not yet gathered a lot of strength in the capital, therefor they have only one representative in the city council but 7 in Althing. 
The head of the party is Guðni Ágústsson, he started as a vice-president in 2001 but was made president of the party when Jón Sigurðsson retired in 2007. 
On of the greatest Prorgessive-people is with out a doubt Steingrímur Hermannsson. In the election 1979 he was the head of the party and in that year they added followers and gained 8% support.

The Independence party is a right-wing and was founded in 1929 with the merge of the liberalism party and conservative party. The party's policy is double-barreled, on one hand it works on the conservation of the Icelandic republic, independents and sovereignty and the exploitation endue of Iceland in the interest of the people, and on the other hand boost up ethnical, liberality and liberalism progressivism on a foundation freedom of the individual, freedom of employment and separate estate, with vested interest for every woman, man and child.
The Head is Geir H. Haarde(prime minister) and vice-president in Þorgerdur Katrin Gunnarsdóttir (Minister of Culture and Education)

More to follow...