Geir H. Haarde, head of Iceland’s Independence Party and former Prime Minister marked his last appearance in parliament on Wednesday.
Haarde said that he will give up his party position on Sunday and would not be attending the final parliamentary sessions this week due to medical appointments abroad.
Gudbjartur Hannesson, the president of parliament, said that parliament will be dissolved some time next week in time for the elections on 25th April. There is usually at least a month between the dissolution and the election.
Due to the national conferences of both the Independence Party and the Social Democrats this weekend, there will be no meeting of parliament today (Friday).
Haarde described his long years in politics as “a privilege” and thanked his parliamentary colleagues.
LET HIM GO!!!!!
He needs to be shot
Please GO and never comeback!!!
just leave the country go the heck somewhere else!!!
Come on Alex and Lenka where is article here on his apologizing for mistaekes in 2005 bank privatization process on 26th? It everywhere else.
http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16539&ew_0_a_id=321993
I am actually surprised that Haarde is going to the Netherlands for cancer treatment, since medical standards in Belgium and Germany are higher .
As a human being I wish Haarde all luck and hopefully the treatment will be successfull as cancer is a terrible disease.
Fisy, please have a look too some other articles from the Iceland Review:
http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16567&ew_0_a_id=321992
http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_life/?cat_id=16571&ew_0_a_id=321871
Geir Haarde did appologize, but only to the party
not to the nation.
Good point Axel.