Icelandic President found plogging at Presidential Residence

Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, President of Iceland has taken up the habit of plogging, the Swedish fitness craze for people concerned with the environment.

President and First Lady visit Harvard

Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, President of Iceland, will today be visiting Harvard University in the US. He is accompanied by his wife Eliza Reid. Reid will be speaking to students and staff about women's rights in Iceland.

President gives no new mandate to form government

After three failed personal mandates to form a majority government in Iceland, the President has decided – for the second time – to give no specific mandate for the time being.

Second leader gives up on forming Iceland government

Leader of Iceland’s Left-Green Movement Katrín Jakobsdóttir has formally renounced the presidential mandate given to her to form a majority government to rule Iceland.

Icelandic President causes Twitter sensation with his Buff headwear

President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson is enjoying great popularity among the nation for his laid-back attitude and unpresidential air. He's been spotted biking his kids to school, picking up Domino's pizza, and now, wearing Buff headwear to an official function.

Two of Iceland’s seven parties form coalition talk alliance

Bright Future and Regeneration – two parties in the centre of the Icelandic political spectrum – have decided to join forces for the purposes of ongoing talks to form a new government.

Iceland’s President to give up hefty pay rise?

“I expect the Iceland parliament to reverse this decision,” he told reporters, indicating that his pay rise would not be going into his pocket, but “elsewhere”.

Leader of Iceland’s right given mandate to form government

Leader of Iceland’s Independence Party Bjarni Benediktsson will be given first crack of the whip at forming a new national government, it has just been announced.

Icelandic MPs to get 44% pay rise

The 63 new MPs sitting in Iceland’s national parliament (‘Alþingi’) can look forward to a new salary of nearly €9,000 per month, thanks to a 44% pay rise granted to them by the State pay authority National Remuneration Board (link in Icelandic) on election day.

President sounding out party leaders to give coalition mandate

The President of Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson has convened the leaders of all political parties represented in the new Icelandic parliament to the presidential residential of Bessastaðir today.