Iceland President re-elected with 92% of vote

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Iceland president re-elected with 92 per cent of vote

REYKJAVIK - Iceland's President Gudni Johannesson has been re-elected with a whopping 92 per cent of the vote, according to final results released on Sunday .

The final results showed he took 92.2 per cent of the 168,821 votes cast, crushing rightwing challenger Gudmundur Franklin Jonsson. In this parliamentary republic, the president is largely symbolic, but he or she does have the power to veto legislation or submit it to a referendum.

 

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