Reykjavik-Sana
The Icelandic authorities announced that the final results of the parliamentary elections showed that women won the majority of parliamentary seats, a first in Europe.
AFP quoted officials as saying that, according to expectations based on the final results of yesterday's poll, women will occupy 33 seats out of 63 in the Icelandic parliament, or 52.3 percent.
According to the International Institute for Democracy, if several parties reserve the right to nominate a minimum proportion of women among their candidates, there is no law imposing a specific quota for women in legislative elections in Iceland.
According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, there are currently five other countries in the world in which women occupy at least half the number of parliament seats: Rwanda 61 percent, Cuba 53 percent, Nicaragua 51 percent, in addition to Mexico and the United States 50 percent.
It is noteworthy that Iceland, with a population of 370,000 people, was the first democratically elected president of the country in 1980.
