Iceland – Election of constitutional assembly

On 27 November Iceland elected a constitutional assembly. There were just over 500 candidates for 25 places. The turnout was only 37%.

The Reykjavík Grapevine has provided a list of those elected, including brief biographical details. As far as I can see, five of the representatives believe that constitutional reform should have something to do with a clarification of the roles of the executive, legislature and judiciary and a couple envisage more specific reforms such as the direct election of the prime minister.

Obviously, if such issues were to be adopted, then there would most likely be changes to Iceland’s semi-presidential system.

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