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    Althingi or Althing, is the supreme national parliament of Iceland. It is one of the oldest surviving parliaments in the world. The Althing was founded...
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    A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments...
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    governed as an independent commonwealth under the native parliament, the Althing, one of the world's oldest functioning legislative assemblies. Following...
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    Alþingishúsið (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈalˌθiɲcɪsˌhuːsɪθ], The Parliament House) is a classical 19th century structure which stands by Austurvöllur in...
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  • in Iceland by Saturday 27 September 2025 to elect the 63 members of the Althing. The 2021 parliamentary election took place on 25 September, a month before...
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  • speakers of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament. The Speaker of the Althing (Icelandic: Forseti Alþingis, literally the President of the Althing) is the presiding...
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    Members of the Althing are elected on the basis of proportional representation from six constituencies. Until 1991, membership of the Althing was divided...
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  • Jóhannesson Prime Minister: Katrín Jakobsdóttir Althing: 2021-present Althing Speaker of the Althing: Birgir Ármannsson President of the Supreme Court:...
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    Løgting (redirect from Faroese Althing)
    was introduced in 1948. Together with the Manx Tynwald and the Icelandic Alþing, the Løgting is one of the oldest surviving parliaments in the world, all...
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  • Speakers of the Upper House of the Althing. In 1991, the Althing became unicameral. The official website of the Althing[citation needed]...
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  • in Iceland. The Left-Green Movement is the third largest party in the Althing, with 8 members of 63 in total after the 2021 Icelandic parliamentary election...
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    politician. He was elected twice as lawspeaker of the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He is commonly thought to have authored or compiled portions of the Prose...
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    total of 24 women were elected to the Althing, compared to 30 in the 2016 election. Of those elected to the Althing, 19 are new, but this is considerably...
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    the Althing. Police are prepared for trouble in front of the House of the Althing. Overview over Austurvöllur, in front of the House of the Althing Overview...
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  • Commonwealth consisted of a number of clans run by chieftains, and the Althing was a combination of parliament and supreme court where disputes appealed...
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    Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (category Members of the Althing)
    the 100 most powerful women in the world. She has been a member of the Althing (Iceland's parliament) for Reykjavík constituencies since 1978, winning...
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    often named the Estates. The oldest surviving legislature is the Icelandic Althing, founded in 930 CE. Democratic legislatures have six major functions: representation...
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    Gunnar returns with honours from a trip to Scandinavia. He goes to the Althing – the annual assembly – in splendour, and meets Hallgerður. They are impressed...
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    institutions of some Nordic countries (e.g. the Icelandic parliament, the Alþing) and of the Isle of Man. In modern German and Dutch the day Tuesday is named...
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    was decided by the Alþingi (Althing). It has changed over the years, but the legislative body is still called the Althing. Following the settlement of...
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    Jón Sigurðsson (category Speakers of the Althing)
    for the first time since 1833 to sit at the restored Alþing. Jón had been elected to the Althing in 1844 as an MP for Ísafjörður county. He managed to...
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    the political unit existing in Iceland between the establishment of the Althing (Icelandic: Alþingi) in 930 and the pledge of fealty to the Norwegian king...
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  • local government. From the start, Gaukur Jörundsson was elected by the Althing as the umboðsmaður. He was reelected twice, the last time with a mandate...
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    since dropped significantly in opinion polls. The party lost all of its Althing seats in the 2017 election. The party did not present any lists in the...
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  • This is a list of the current 63 members of the Althing (Icelandic Parliament), from 2021 until 2025. "Website". mbl.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved February...
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    Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) (category Members of the Althing)
    "We lost this time but we will win again later," he said. In the 2013 Althing elections on 28 April the Independence Party and their ally the Progressive...
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  • nobody is allowed to approve a bill before three readings in the Althing, and Althing meetings shall take place in public unless otherwise approved by...
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    communications between Iceland and Denmark. As a result, on 10 April, the Althing passed two resolutions investing the Icelandic cabinet with the power of...
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  • and represented them at the Althing. Úlfljót was chosen as the first lawspeaker (lögsögumaðr), who presided the Althing which met annually at Thingvellir...
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