Appointed Icelandic lesbian prime minister now elected

Iceland’s lesbian prime minister, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, who was appointed to the job Feb. 1 after the government fell when the nation’s banks collapsed, was elected to continue serving on April 27.

English2009-05-03

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

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Appointed Icelandic lesbian prime minister now elected

”Our time has come!” said Sigurðardóttir, 66, a Social Democrat who now leads a left-wing majority coalition with the Left-Green party.

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Sigurðardóttir is the world’s first openly gay or lesbian head of a national government, though openly gay Per-Kristian Foss very briefly served as Norway’s acting prime minister in 2002 when more senior ministers were out of the country.

In the 1960s, Sigurðardóttir was a flight attendant for what is now Icelandair. She has been in a registered partnership with writer Jónína Leósdóttir since 2002.

Iceland has a population of 304,367, making it smaller than the least-populous U.S. state, Wyoming, which has a population of 532,668.

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Publicerad 2009-05-03
Uppdaterad 2017-06-18