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The Cabinet of Bjarni Benediktsson was formed on 11 January 2017, following the 2016 parliamentary election. The cabinet was led by Bjarni Benediktsson of the
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, who served as
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. The cabinet was a coalition government consisting the
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, the Reform Party and Bright Future. Together they held 32 of the 63 seats in the
Parliament of Iceland The Alþingi (''general meeting'' in Icelandic, , anglicised as ' or ') is the supreme national parliament of Iceland. It is one of the oldest surviving parliaments in the world. The Althing was founded in 930 at ("thing fields" or "assembl ...
and served as a majority government. In the cabinet, there were eleven ministers where six were from the
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, three were from the Reform Party and two were from Bright Future.New Icelandic Government - government of Mr. Bjarni Benediktsson takes office
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Government of Iceland The politics of Iceland take place in the framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the president is the head of state, while the prime minister of Iceland serves as the head of government in a multi-party syste ...
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Cabinet of Iceland The Cabinet of Iceland ( is, Stjórnarráð Íslands) is the collective decision-making body of the government of Iceland, composed of the Prime Minister and the cabinet ministers. History The Cabinet of Iceland is considered to have been forme ...


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