Icelands new PM is 41-year-old anti-war feminist and environmentalist. Good news for them.

[Amaryllis]

Katrin Jakobsdottir plans to make the small island nation a world-leader in fighting climate change.

Her Left-Green Movement will lead a coalition government with two parties across the political spectrum in the hope it gives Iceland some ‘stability’.

The country has been rocked by a cycle of scandals that have triggered three elections in the past four years.

A snap election was called by former PM Bjarni Benediktsson in September over a furore caused by his father suggesting a paedophile, who repeatedly raped his stepdaughter for 12 years, should have his ‘honour restored’.

Less than a year earlier, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson stepped aside as prime minister amid public fury over the Panama Papers revealing his family had sheltered money in offshore tax havens.

In an attempt to break with the past, Jakobsdottir campaigned on a platform of restoring trust in government and leveraged a boom in tourism to increase public spending.

More:
http://metro.co.uk/2017/12/02/icelands-new-pm-is-a-41-year-old-anti-war-feminist-and-environmentalist-7126584/

[smirkymonkey]

1. K&R

[Pope George Ringo II]

2. I'm going to admit it

I had long thought of Iceland as a place where being an anti-war feminist and environmentalist just made you normal.

[Amaryllis]

4. i thought that too but if you read the article, they've had a lot of problems, and she

sounds like a breath of fresh air. Kind of like all those women who were elected a few weeks ago.

[MoonRiver]

3. Will she do something about their mass murder of whales?

[demmiblue]

6. She is an environmentalist, so I am assuming she will try.

[shenmue]

5. YAY

[Dawson Leery]

7. kick

[jalan48]

8. Great to Hear.

[niyad]

9. k and r--and one of these centuries, the US might actually join the advanced nations.

[Amaryllis]

10. You mean as opposed to aspiring to be a third world country, which seems to be the goal?

of the current regime?

[niyad]

12. well, even before der drumpfenfuhrer, this country lagged so far behind in so many areas.

but, orange is certainly accelerating the downward plunge.

[sarcasmo]

11. A million times better than a 71 year old Orange racist.

[DemRage]

13. Then that is the country to move to

Not sure I can take anymore trump and Moore