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Article: FEMINIST PARTY MAY HOLD KEY TO ICELAND GOVERNMENT
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 27, 1987
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Prime Minister Steingrimur Hermannsson
yesterday conceded defeat in Iceland's general election, leaving
left-wing feminists likely to hold the balance of power in
negotiations to form a new government.
The center-right coalition of Hermannsson's Progressive Party
and the conservative Independence Party emerged with 31 seats in
the 63-seat Althing, Iceland's Parliament.
The two parties held a total of 38 seats in the outgoing
Parliament, which contained 60 seats.
Hermannsson conceded shortly before all votes from Saturday's
election were counted. Of this North Atlantic island nation's
240,000 people, 170,000 were eligible to vote.
"I expect I will be ...