Iceland’s ruling Social Democrats used part of their conference declaration to encourage the country’s financial institutions not to stop restructuring household debts even though the facility to write off debt appears to be fully utilised. Read the full story

Icelandic Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir has used the keynote speech at her party’s conference to highlight how much better the national economy is now than when the current government was elected. Read the full story

Bjorgvin G. Sigurdsson intends to return to his seat in the Icelandic Althingi parliament on Friday following Althingi’s decision not to charge him with negligence in the run up to the banking collapse. Read the full story

71 percent of Reykjavik residents support the new coalition in City Hall between the Best Party and the Social Democrats. Read the full story

Icelandic MP Steinunn Valdis Oskarsdottir has decided to resign as a Social Democrat member of parliament for Reykjavik. Read the full story

Bjorgvin G. Sigurdsson, Icelandic Social Democrat MP, intends to submit a bill to parliament which would see the country changed from six parliamentary voting districts into just one. Read the full story

Iceland’s Social Democrats remain the most popular political party, according to the latest Capacent Gallup poll conducted for RUV and Morgunbladid. Read the full story

The Social democrats today voted for a new deputy leader at their national conference. The prominent Reykjavik councillor and former mayor Dagur B. Eggertsson won the spot with around two-thirds of the vote.

Dagur promised to re-invigorate ties between the Party and local governments; an area he feels the party has always cared greatly about, but which needs working on.

Johanna Sigurdardottir has been elected party leader of the Icelandic Social Democrats (Samfylkingin) with nearly all votes. Dagur B. Eggertsson will be her second in charge. He got over 65 percent of votes, beating Arni Pall Arnason.

Elections for the Independence party leadership (Sjálfstæðflokkurinn) will take place tomorrow.

These early party elections are in preperation for the Icelandic parliamentary elections due April 25th this year.

The two parties in Iceland’s interim coalition government would secure 38 of parliament’s 63 seats if elections were held today, according to a new Capacent-Gallup poll. Read the full story