Iceland gets new centre-right coalition government

11 Jan, 2017

A new centre-right coalition in Iceland announced Tuesday it had agreed to make Conservative Party leader Bjarni Benediktsson the country's next prime minister. Benediktsson, 46, who has served as finance minister since 2013 and was the big winner in October 29 elections, presented the new government during a press conference in Reykjavik with his new coalition partners, the centre-right Reform Party and the centrist Bright Future.

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