WORLD BRIEFING / ICELAND
Times Wire Reports
Taking the post of Iceland’s interim prime minister is an openly gay ex-flight attendant who parlayed her experience as a union organizer into a decades-long political career.
Both parties forming Iceland’s new coalition government support the appointment of Johanna Sigurdardottir, the island nation’s 66-year-old social affairs minister. She will lead until new elections are held, probably in May.
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