Kristrun Mjoll Frostadottir has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of Iceland.
Appointment
In December 2024, Halla TĂłmasdĂłttir, the President of Iceland, appointed Kristrun Mjoll Frostadottir, the Leader of the Social Democratic Alliance (SDA), as the new Prime Minister (PM) of Iceland. She officially took office, replacing the former PM Bjarni Benediktsson.
- In the 2024 Icelandic Parliamentary Election, she won 20.8% of the vote and secured 15 seats in the Althing (Iceland’s Supreme National Parliament). At 36 years old, Kristrun Mjoll Frostadottir became the youngest PM in Iceland’s history.
- For the first time in Iceland, all the leaders of the governing parties are women, and the country now has both a female PM and a female president.
- Kristrun Frostadottir, an Icelandic politician and economist, began her career as a journalist for the business newspaper ViĂ°skiptablaĂ°iĂ°, later working as an economist at Arion Bank in Iceland, and as a Specialist for Morgan Stanley in New York and London.
Main Point :- (i) Kristrun Frostadottir served as the Chief Economist for the Icelandic Chamber of Commerce in 2017 and for Kvika Bank from 2018 to 2021, later becoming a member of the Budget Committee (2021–2024) and briefly serving on the Economic Affairs and Trade Committee.
(ii) In the 2021 parliamentary election, she was elected to the Althing (Iceland’s Parliament) from the ReykjavĂk South constituency. In the 2024 snap election, she was elected to represent the ReykjavĂk North constituency.
(iii) In November 2024, her center-left Social Democratic Alliance became the largest party in the snap election. The party then agreed to form a coalition government with the centrist People's Party and the left-leaning, pro-European Reform Party.
About Iceland
President: GuĂ°ni Th. JĂłhannesson
PM: Kristrun Mjoll Frostadottir
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