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The following lists events in the year 2016 in Iceland .
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson is an Icelandic politician who was the prime minister of Iceland from May 2013 until April 2016. He was also chairman of the Progressive Party from 2009 to October 2016. He was elected to the Althing as the 8th member for the Reykjavík North Constituency on 25 April 2009. He has represented the Northeast Constituency as its 1st member since 27 April 2013. Taking office at 38, he was the youngest Icelander to become prime minister.
Bjarni Benediktsson, known colloquially as Bjarni Ben, is an Icelandic politician, who is the current prime minister of Iceland since April 2024, and previously from January to November 2017. He has been the leader of the Icelandic Independence Party since 2009, and served as Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs from 2013 to 2017, a post he later retained under Katrín Jakobsdóttir and held until his resignation in October 2023. After serving briefly as the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bjarni became the current Prime Minister of Iceland on 9 April 2024.
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson is an Icelandic politician, who was the prime minister of Iceland from April 2016 to January 2017. He is the chairman of the Progressive Party and since April 2024, he has served as the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, having previously served as Minister of Infrastructure.
Ragnhildur Helgadóttir was an Icelandic politician. She was a member of the Icelandic parliament, the Althing, first from 1956 for the Independence Party. From 1961 to December 1962 she was the First President of the Lower House, and she was president of the parliament several times. From 1983 to 1987 she was a government minister, first of education, then of health, social and communication.
The Cabinet of Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson in Iceland was formed 23 May 2013. The cabinet left office 7 April 2016 due to the Panama Papers leak.
Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 29 October 2016. They were due to be held on or before 27 April 2017, but following the 2016 Icelandic anti-government protests, the ruling coalition announced that early elections would be held "in autumn".
Ásta Guðrún Helgadóttir is an Icelandic politician who was a Pirate Party member of the Icelandic parliament from 2015 to 2017. She represented Reykjavík South.
The 2016 Icelandic anti-government protests were a series of protests against the Icelandic government following the release of the Panama Papers.
The following lists events that happened in 1981 in Iceland.
The following lists events that happened in 1975 in Iceland.
The following lists events that happened in 1962 in Iceland.
The following lists events that happened in 1955 in Iceland.
The following lists events that happened in 1954 in Iceland.
The following lists events that happened in 1949 in Iceland.
This list includes events that happened in 1948 in Iceland.
The following lists events that happened in 1939 in Iceland.
The following lists events that happened in 1935 in Iceland.
The following lists events that happened in 1930 in Iceland.
Jónas Kristjánsson was an Icelandic writer, newspaper journalist and editor. He was one of the most influential people in the Icelandic newspaper history during the second half of the 20th century and was one of the strongest spokespersons for moving the newspapers publications away from the political parties.
The Klaustur Affair, also known in Iceland as Klaustur Recordings(Klaustursupptökurnar) or Klausturgate was a political scandal in Iceland triggered by audio recordings of a group Althing parliamentarians made without their knowledge at the Reykjavík bar Klaustur in late November, 2018. In the recordings, the parliamentarians make sexist remarks about some of their colleagues and discuss the appointment of an ambassador as a political favour.