Steingrimur J Sigfusson has stepped down as the head of Iceland’s Left Green Party. Sigfusson, who also serves as the country’s minister of industry, announced the move during a press conference in Reykjavik during which he also said that he will continue working in the country’s legislative body nonetheless.
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Iceland industry minster resigns as Left Green Party head
Posted on 23 February 2013.
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Icelandic MP moves to new political party
Posted on 02 June 2011.
Asmundur Einar Dadason, the independent Icelandic member of Althingi who resigned from the Left Green party earlier this year, yesterday joined the Progressive Party.
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Icesave referendum this Saturday
Posted on 04 April 2011.
Steingrimur J. Sigfusson, Iceland’s Minister of Finance, and Katrin Jakobsdottir, Minister for Education, have urged members of their Left Green Movement to vote yes in this Saturday’s Icesave referendum in a column on the party website.
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Icelandic government MPs resign
Posted on 21 March 2011.
Two members of the Icelandic Left Green Movement have today resigned from the parliamentary party. Both say they will remain in the Athingi parliament as independents and both will remain personal members of the Left Green Movement. The government still enjoys a slim majority.
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Left Greens: sexual abuse should be better investigated in Iceland
Posted on 21 November 2010.
Iceland’s Left Green Movement, the junior partner in the coalition government, held a conference this weekend. Among the items on the agenda were Iceland’s EU application and the low rate of prosecutions in sexual abuse cases.
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Left Greens endorse continuation of Iceland’s EU accession talks
Posted on 24 October 2010.
Steingrimur J. Sigfusson, Iceland’s Minister of Finance and leader of the Left Green Movement, says that there would need to be a highly compelling reason to quit European Union accession talks now. His ministerial party colleagues have full permission to continue the accession talks.
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Icelandic government uses another of its nine lives
Posted on 30 March 2010.
Icelandic Left-Green MP Gudfridur Lilja Grettarsdottir believes the government is still in good working order, despite recent comments about cats and disagreements over structural changes.
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Left Greens try to resuscitate Iceland government
Posted on 07 October 2009.
The parliamentary group of Iceland’s Left Green Movement will meet this afternoon upon their leader, Steingrimur J. Sigfusson’s return home from the IMF annual meeting in Turkey. The meeting is being described by some as a last gasp attempt to breathe life back into the party’s coalition government with the Social Democrats.
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