Iceland elects Europe's first female majority parliament

Iceland looks set to make history by becoming the first European country to elect a female majority to parliament.

The country has long been considered a leader in gender equality and was ranked the most gender-equal nation in the world for the 12th year running in a World Economic Forum report released in March. "I just woke up not so long ago - I'm not going to lie about it - and turned off the phone in airplane mode and it was all exploding," she told reporters. "Full, full, full of messages and I managed to look in one message and it said: Congratulations , so I assumed I had gotten in."

Meanwhile, yesterday's election saw the incumbent left-right coalition government, led by Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir, increase its majority.

Twenty years after Rwanda and Jamaica.

Good!

All the blokes are like “I’m outta here let the chicks handle the fact that the country is literally melting away” Well done guys. Way to take responsibility.

The first step this govt should take to say no to Taliban - don’t recognize them and take a lead to safeguard afghan women interest HabibKhanT - FreeAfghanistan

Lol gotta love all the weak-minded men responding with outrage 😂 Women are beating men in elementary-college so women will continue to dominate more and more in future.

ProletaireY That small populated,independent nation of Iceland

one can only hope they don’t all become pregnant on the same day and take 12 months off on leave, indeed they may loose their majority. However given labour stance in the uk, we could have a cervix explosion amongst the male population

To be fare most of the icelandic population is related to each other anyway

The Pirate Party sound quite sensible and not at all a joke. They have an interesting view on corruption and nepotism which Johnson and chums could learn from.

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