First gay premier takes helm in Iceland

(CNN) -- Iceland's political parties have reached an agreement that will give the country its first female prime minister and the world its first openly gay leader.

Johanna Sigurdardottir, 66, will lead the government when it is sworn in at 6 p.m. (1 p.m. Eastern) on Sunday, her political advisor Hrannar Arnarsson told CNN via e-mail.

A former flight attendant who entered politics via the union movement, Sigurdardottir was minister of social affairs and social security in the outgoing Cabinet, which resigned Monday.

Iceland has been in political turmoil since October, when its currency, stock market and leading banks collapsed amid the global financial crisis. The island nation's Nordic neighbors sent billions of dollars to prop up the economy, as did the International Monetary Fund in its first intervention to support a Western European democracy in decades.

But weekly demonstrations -- some verging on riots -- finally forced Prime Minister Geir Haarde and his coalition to resign en masse on January 26.

The country's president turned to the Social Democratic Alliance party to form a new government, and they selected Sigurdardottir to lead it.


She has been a member of Iceland's Parliament for 30 years, and was in her second stint as minister of social affairs. She started her career as a flight attendant for the airline that became IcelandAir. She was active in the flight attendants' labor union during her 11 years with the airline, according to her official resume.

She briefly led her own political party, which merged with other center-left parties to form the Alliance party.

Sigurdardottir would become Iceland's first female prime minister, although not the North Atlantic nation's first female head of state -- Vigdis Finnbogadottir became its fourth president in 1980.

Sigurdardottir lists author and playwright Jonina Leosdottir, 54, as her spouse on her ministry Web site. She has two children from an earlier marriage.

Her prime ministership may be short-lived. The government she is forming is only due to last until the next elections, which must take place by May and could be held in April.

But a leading British gay and lesbian rights group welcomed her appointment as a milestone.

"It really does matter. It is helpful" to have an openly gay prime minister, said Gary Nunn, a spokesperson for Stonewall UK. "We are trying to foster the ambition that young people can be anything they want to be."
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source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/01/iceland.pm/index.html


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"The enemy dies relaxed," observed a Lockheed Martin manager.

westrns dutch faggetry as same as polack dildo dancers
must beings sayings now Iceland HDI is number 1 ranks of world

so its bests place to be!

never mind the economy collapse, finance crunch even PM resigns for a gayiety
lol

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I am old Christiankiller
Sorry for offensive to our good religion christian brothers
I am not hating christians

They have encountered this crisis and sadly richocheted off it in the wrong direction. Oh well.

F.uck an eye for an eye. You take my eye, and I will kill you, and all those you care about. That is our policy.

A female prime minister who fancies women? Wow! That's even a bigger outrage than Icesave's nationalisation!

"They have encountered this crisis and sadly richocheted off it in the wrong direction."

I find reactions such as that interesting, what if the policies her government implements are the same as your ideas for solving the crisis and work? Would you still consider it the wrong direction, based solely on the woman's sexual preference?

Out of curiosity, where is order of importance do you place sexual preference of an elected official versus their policies (for example). If your feeling truly brave include your age (and any other relevant demographic information you feel is worthwhile) in your response.

For me...

37, Canadian - sexual orientation is irrelevant.

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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
George Bernard Shaw

Since Jorg Haider was a homosexual too, the neo-nazi's among us must attach greater value to one's political ideas than one's sexual preference. After all, I remember being said how great a guy Haider was.

I therefore assume the guys here were referring to the fact that the woman comes from a social-democratic party, rather than that she thinks girls are sexy

westrns faggetry paedophilia dutcheds polack dildo dancers
makings claims HDi ist definitive sole comprehensives indicator of 'quality of living'

its implication that Iceland is world best quality of livings enjoyinegd

hahahah

never minds economic crisis financial crunchs even gay premire faggetry incestuous paedophilia bikini drunkards anali threesome orgy penetration children backside fellation itsj ungel cultrue?

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I am old Christiankiller
Sorry for offensive to our good religion christian brothers
I am not hating christians

"I therefore assume the guys here were referring to the fact that the woman comes from a social-democratic party, rather than that she thinks girls are sexy wink.gif"

I believe Anglozionkiller's response highlights the level maturity you can expect regarding this here. Besides, it would be one of the more intelligent discussions on the board if Notan (or another poster) were to should up with a policy document or some such and critique it, don't you think?

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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
George Bernard Shaw

@Coalde

The way I see it, homosexuals have a huge bug in the code somewhere, and being attracted to the same sex is just one manifestation of it. Even if that were not the case, I just can't feel that me and a homosexual look at the world in ways that are appreciably similar. And this being so, I would not be comfortable having a leader whose outlook on life and thought processess and cannot understand.

F.uck an eye for an eye. You take my eye, and I will kill you, and all those you care about. That is our policy.

"The way I see it, homosexuals have a huge bug in the code somewhere, and being attracted to the same sex is just one manifestation of it. Even if that were not the case, I just can't feel that me and a homosexual look at the world in ways that are appreciably similar. And this being so, I would not be comfortable having a leader whose outlook on life and thought processess and cannot understand. "

Thank you for the honest response. Bear with me, I just want to make sure I understand your position correctly.

You are saying that should our hypothetical leader possess roughly the same world view as you and propose policies that address them in ways similar to your own reasoning, you would with hold your support them due to a different outlook and thought processes (based on solely their sexual preference)? Do you hold the same position when it comes to a leaders religion?

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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
George Bernard Shaw

"I just can't feel that me and a homosexual look at the world in ways that are appreciably similar. And this being so, I would not be comfortable having a leader whose outlook on life and thought processess and cannot understand. "

The same exact thing could be said regarding women. In both instances it's retarded not to vote for someone based on gender or race.

"The same exact thing could be said regarding women."

Hmmm...I had not thought of that one. Certainly there is evidence to suggest that women and men operate in a completely different ways, mentally anyway, which is attributed to both evolution and upbringing factors.

So what of you Brazil, do you care about a leader's sexual preferences? Is it irrelevant to you?

(I'll go out on limb here and guess that you are Brazilian and male...although may not reside there currently, somewhere in your late 20's or early 30's...am I badly off?)

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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
George Bernard Shaw

"So what of you Brazil, do you care about a leader's sexual preferences? Is it irrelevant to you?"

No of course not, does a gay elected official make me any less safe? Lead to economic instability? Is somehow a person's sexual preference make them any less likely to represent their country in a respectable matter? I'm personally planning on voting for a woman president in the 2010 Brazilian elections.

"(I'll go out on limb here and guess that you are Brazilian and male...although may not reside there currently, somewhere in your late 20's or early 30's...am I badly off?)"

Brazilian, male, 20, living abroad.

whats nonsense beings spoked here by teenagers drunkards youngsters of amerikunts residents?

whats meanings of nationality? its arbitary historique of tribal mentality to splits peoples into feudings factions

why then sticks with this nonsense?

yets want to let faggetry take over ands promote it as beings good useful wise move?

incestuous bikini drunkards anali threesome orgy penetration children backside fellation upskirt pole dildo dancing theirs mothres ALL slvts cvnts whreos bithces showing backisde fvcking strangersp roducing bstrades its jungle culture ofwestrns anglo topless zionazi amerikunts europa westrns its jungle culture?

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I am old Christiankiller
Sorry for offensive to our good religion christian brothers
I am not hating christians

"whats nonsense beings spoked here by teenagers drunkards youngsters of amerikunts residents? "

I believe you are the only one on the forum that speaks (well writes really) nonsense...the rest of the discussions are in English.

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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
George Bernard Shaw

u mean no nonsense can be written in english? nor any nonenglish spokens words beings sensible?

LOl

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I am old Christiankiller
Sorry for offensive to our good religion christian brothers
I am not hating christians

"u mean no nonsense can be written in english? nor any nonenglish spokens words beings sensible? "

No I mean that you write nonsensical gibberish for the most part, such as...

incestuous bikini drunkards anali threesome orgy penetration children backside fellation upskirt pole dildo dancing theirs mothres ALL slvts cvnts whreos bithces showing backisde fvcking strangersp roducing bstrades its jungle culture ofwestrns anglo topless zionazi amerikunts europa westrns its jungle culture?

Whether the words you use are in English, Swahili or Polish is irrelevant.

Perhaps you are one of the infinite chimpanzees working diligently to reproduce all the great works literature (apparently you are part of the Fanny Hill working group)...

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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."

George Bernard Shaw

She can demonstrate expert tongue action for everyone.

"I believe you are the only one on the forum that speaks (well writes really) nonsense...the rest of the discussions are in English."

its mean only one things

discussions in english
separates totally from
nonsense

thta meanings english speakers write no nonsesne
and nonenglish speakers write no sense

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I am old Christiankiller
Sorry for offensive to our good religion christian brothers
I am not hating christians

Notan is still lowering the bar I see.


@coalde

No one really replies to anglo. It's the gibberish part that makes conversations rather unproductive.


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I am always willing to give someone a chance to act intelligently, alas he failed. However I suspect he has another persona on the board as his almost error free spelling proves he has at least half a brain.

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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
George Bernard Shaw

oh listens to the above gaiety supports merry gay ways of jolly love makings

yucks

disgustings why anybodys will care abouts HDI rankings after Icelands gayiety leadership and economic collapsion

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I am old Christiankiller
Sorry for offensive to our good religion christian brothers
I am not hating christians

See what I mean?


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Her sexual orientation is irrelevant as long as she can do her job.

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De Gaulle to the General Koenig, Norman hero of Bir Hakeim: "Hear and tell your troops: the whole of France is watching you, you are our pride."[

"Her sexual orientation is irrelevant as long as she can do her job."

She made it the issue, nobody else. It wasn't public knowledge until she made it so. She must like everybody knowing she's a carpet muncher and a clit licker.

How did she make it "an issue"?


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I am all for lesbians especialy if the partners are hot . I feel a lot of sympathy for them as I am sure I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body

From personal experience I have to say that most lesbians look like dudes.


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Every man should study a lesbian to acquire expert tongue technique. Outside of that they're not much use.

"From personal experience I have to say that most lesbians look like dudes."

Come to TO during "Pride week"...

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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
George Bernard Shaw

Less talk, more pics.


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she may have been hot 30 years ago





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