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Eleven people running for president

The National Electoral Comission announced the candidates that are running for president. mbl.is/Kristinn Magnússon

A total of 11 people will be running for the office of the President of Iceland. This was stated in the ruling of the National Electoral Commission.

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Before the weekend, 13 candidates submitted their candidacy documents to the National Electoral Commission, which announced at a press conference this morning that the candidacies of Kári Vilmundsson Hansen and Viktor Traustason were not valid.

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These are the ones running for president:

Arnar Þór Jónsson
Ásdís Rán Gunnarsdóttir
Ástþór Magnússon Wium
Baldur Þórhallsson
Eiríkur Ingi Jóhannsson
Halla Hrund Logadóttir
Halla Tómasdóttir
Helga Þórisdóttir
Jón Gnarr
Katrín Jakobsdóttir
Steinunn Ólína Þorsteinsdóttir

After reviewing the presidential candidates’ list of recommendations over the weekend, four candidates were given until yesterday to add to their signatures, namely Ástþór Magnússon, Helga Þórisdóttir, Eiríkur Ingi Jóhannsson and Arnar Þór Jónsson, and all of them were able to gather a sufficient number of signatures.