Businesswoman Halla Tomasdottir elected as Iceland’s next President

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: June 06 2024

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Businesswoman and B Team CEO Halla Tomasdottir has been elected the seventh president of Iceland and will take over from Guyana Johansson on August 1.
Tomsdottir will be the second woman to hold the post after Vigdis Finnbogadóttir, who was the first woman in the world to be democratically elected president in 1980.
Halla Tomasdottir received 34.3 percent of the votes, while former Icelandic Prime Minister Katerina Jakobsdottir received 25.2 percent of the votes.

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Businesswoman Halla Tomasdottir elected as Iceland’s next President