Prime Minister of Iceland
Prime Minister of Iceland | |
---|---|
Forsætisráðherra Íslands | |
Prime Minister's Office | |
Member of |
|
Seat | Reykjavík, Capital Region |
Nominator | Incumbent's political party and coalition government |
Appointer | President of Iceland |
Term length | No Term limit Serves as long as the incumbent has majority support in the Parliament. |
Constituting instrument |
|
Precursor | Minister for Iceland |
Inaugural holder | Jón Magnússon |
Formation | 1 February 1904 |
Salary | 2,021,825 ISK monthly (2017)[1] Or about $15,885 USD monthly |
Website | eng forsaetisraduneyti |
Iceland portal |
The prime minister of Iceland (Icelandic: Forsætisráðherra Íslands) is Iceland's head of government. The prime minister is appointed formally by the president and exercises executive authority along with the cabinet subject to parliamentary support.
Constitutional basis
The prime minister is appointed by the president under the Constitution of Iceland, Section II Article 17, and chairs the Cabinet of Iceland:
- Fundunum stjórnar sá ráðherra, er forseti lýðveldisins hefur kvatt til forsætis, og nefnist hann forsætisráðherra.[2]
- The [cabinet] meetings shall be presided over by the Minister called upon by the President of the Republic to do so, who is designated Prime Minister.[3]
Locations
The prime minister's office is located in Stjórnarráðið, Reykjavik, where their secretariat is based and where cabinet meetings are held.[4] The prime minister has a summer residence, Þingvallabær in Þingvellir. The prime minister also has a reception house at Tjarnargata, Reykjavik, which was the prime ministerial residence until 1943.[5]
-
Stjórnarráðið in Reykjavík, the Prime Minister's Office
-
Þingvallabær, the Prime Minister's summer residence
List of previous prime ministers
Home Rule (1904–1918)
Political party: Home Rule Independence Union Independent
No | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) Constituency |
Took office | Left office | Party |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hannes Þórður Pétursson Hafstein (1861–1922) MP for Eyjafjarðarsýsla |
1 February 1904 | 31 March 1909 | Home Rule Party | ||
style="background:Template:Independence Party (Iceland)/meta/color;" | | Björn Jónsson (1846–1912) MP for Barðastrandarsýsla |
31 March 1909 | 14 March 1911 | Independence Party | |
style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" | | Kristján Jónsson (1852–1926) MP for Borgarfjarðarsýsla |
14 March 1911 | 24 July 1912 | Independent | |
Hannes Hafstein (1861–1922) MP for Eyjafjarðarsýsla |
24 July 1912 | 21 July 1914 | Union Party | ||
style="background:Template:Independence Party (Iceland)/meta/color;" | | Sigurður Eggerz (1875–1945) MP for West Skaftafellssýsla |
21 July 1914 | 4 May 1915 | Independence Party | |
style="background:Template:Independence Party (Iceland)/meta/color;" | | Einar Arnórsson (1880–1955) MP for Árnessýsla |
4 May 1915 | 4 January 1917 | Independence Party (Langsum) |
Kingdom (1918–1944)
Political party: Home Rule Independence Conservative Progressive Independent
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) Constituency |
Term of office | Political Party | Cabinet | Election | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
# | Took Office | Left Office | Days | |||||||
1 | Jón Magnússon (1859–1926) MP for Reykjavík until 1920 not in Parliament from 1920 |
1 | 4 January 1917 | 25 February 1920 | 1888 | Home Rule Party | HP–IP–PP | Oct. 1916 | ||
2 | 25 February 1920 | 7 March 1922 | HP–others | 1919 | ||||||
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Independence Party (Iceland)/meta/color;" | | 2 | Sigurður Eggerz (1875–1945) MP without constituency |
• | 7 March 1922 | 22 March 1924 | 746 | Independence Party | IP–others | ||
rowspan=4 bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (Iceland)/meta/color|1923 | ||||||||||
style="background:Template:Conservative Party (Iceland)/meta/color;" | | (1) | Jón Magnússon (1859–1926) MP without constituency |
3 | 22 March 1924 | 23 June 1926 (died) | 823 | Conservative Party | CP | ||
style="background:Template:Conservative Party (Iceland)/meta/color;" | | 3 | Magnús Guðmundsson Acting (1879–1937) MP for Skagafjarðarsýsla |
23 June 1926 | 8 July 1926 | 15 | Conservative Party | ||||
style="background:Template:Conservative Party (Iceland)/meta/color;" | | 4 | Jón Þorláksson (1877–1935) MP without constituency |
• | 8 July 1926 | 28 August 1927 | 416 | Conservative Party | CP | ||
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Progressive Party (Iceland)/meta/color;" | | 5 | Tryggvi Þórhallsson (1889–1935) MP for Strandasýsla |
• | 28 August 1927 | 3 June 1932 | 1741 | Progressive Party | PP | bgcolor=Template:Progressive Party (Iceland)/meta/color |1927 | |
rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Progressive Party (Iceland)/meta/color |1931 | ||||||||||
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Progressive Party (Iceland)/meta/color;" | | 6 | Ásgeir Ásgeirsson (1894–1972) MP for West Ísafjarðarsýsla |
• | 3 June 1932 | 28 July 1934 | 785 | Progressive Party | PP–IP–Peasants | ||
bgcolor=Template:Independence Party (Iceland)/meta/color |1933 | ||||||||||
rowspan=4 style="background:Template:Progressive Party (Iceland)/meta/color;" | | 7 | Hermann Jónasson (1896–1976) MP for Strandasýsla |
1 | 28 July 1934 | 2 April 1938 | 2849 | Progressive Party | PP–SDP | bgcolor=Template:Independence Party (Iceland)/meta/color |1934 | |
2 | 2 April 1938 | 17 April 1939 | PP | rowspan=3 bgcolor=Template:Progressive Party (Iceland)/meta/color |1937 | ||||||
3 | 17 April 1939 | 18 November 1941 | PP–IP–SDP | |||||||
4 | 18 November 1941 | 16 May 1942 | PP–IP–SDP | |||||||
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Independence Party (Iceland)/meta/color;" | | 8 | Ólafur Tryggvason Thors (1892–1964) MP for Gullbringu and Kjósarsýsla |
1 | 16 May 1942 | 16 December 1942 | 214 | Independence Party | IP | bgcolor=Template:Independence Party (Iceland)/meta/color |Jul.1942 | |
rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Independence Party (Iceland)/meta/color |Oct.1942 | ||||||||||
style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" | | 9 | Björn Þórðarson (1879–1963) not in Parliament |
• | 16 December 1942 | 21 October 1944 | 675 | Independent | — |
Republic (1944–present)
Political party: Independence Progressive Social Democratic Party Social Democratic Alliance Left-Green
Timeline
See also
References
- ^ "2016.3.001 Alþingismenn, ráðherrar og forseti Íslands" [2016.3.001 Parliamentarians, Ministers and President of Iceland] (PDF). Kjararáð (in Icelandic). p. 7.
- ^ Constitution of Iceland (Icelandic version)
- ^ Constitution of Iceland (English version)
- ^ "The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) in Iceland". Prime Minister's Office. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ "Minister's Residence". Prime Minister's Office. Retrieved 28 October 2015.