Ben Sternthal & Friends » kreppa http://blog.sternthal.org I am a freelance American Web Engineer and Information Architect living and working in Portland, Oregon. Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:17:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 And The New Prime Minister Is . . . http://blog.sternthal.org/2009/01/27/and-the-new-prime-minister-is/ http://blog.sternthal.org/2009/01/27/and-the-new-prime-minister-is/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:37:08 +0000 ben http://blog.sternthal.org/?p=411 Well there isnt one yet, but everyone is saying it will be Johanna Sigurdardottir at least for an interim period.

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The fact that she is a lesbian (I guess the first lesbian pm in the world) is noteworthy. I’m more concerned with her ability to put this country back together again.

There are a handful of political parties here, my two party mind is not coping well and I have to refer to this wikipedia article everytime someone mentions what party is doing what:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Iceland

The social democrats have a manifesto in english, manifestos are never a good thing.

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