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  • Icelandic: Ríkisstjórn Íslands

Governs Iceland

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  • Prime Minister government.is · checked
  • Kristrún Frostadóttir as Prime Minister althingi.is · checked
  • Minister for Foreign Affairs althingi.is · checked
  • Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir as Minister for Foreign Affairs althingi.is · checked
  • Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs althingi.is · checked
  • Daði Már Kristófersson as Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs althingi.is · checked
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  • Minister of Industries althingi.is · checked
  • Hanna Katrín Friðriksson as Minister of Industries althingi.is · checked
  • Minister of Justice althingi.is · checked
  • Þorbjörg Sigríður Gunnlaugsdóttir as Minister of Justice althingi.is · checked
  • Minister of Social Affairs and Housing althingi.is · checked
  • Ragnar Þór Ingólfsson as Minister of Social Affairs and Housing althingi.is · checked
  • Minister of Health althingi.is · checked
  • Alma D. Möller as Minister of Health althingi.is · checked
  • Minister of Infrastructure althingi.is · checked
  • Eyjólfur Ármannsson as Minister of Infrastructure althingi.is · checked
  • Minister of Culture, Innovation and Higher Education althingi.is · checked
  • Logi Einarsson as Minister of Culture, Innovation and Higher Education althingi.is · checked
  • Minister of Education and Children althingi.is · checked
  • Inga Sæland as Minister of Education and Children althingi.is · checked
  • Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate althingi.is · checked
  • Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson as Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate althingi.is · checked
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  • Executive power

    The President and the other governmental authorities referred to in the Constitution exercise executive power (Art. 2); in practice ministers administer their ministries (Art. 13-14).

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  • government.is · checked Government of Iceland, Constitution of the Republic of Iceland (Act no. 33/1944 as amended), read 2026-10-12: structure, selection and competences of the President, ministers, Althing and courts. Offices without a dated source are drawn from the Constitution text. For: Government of Iceland, Prime Minister
  • althingi.is · checked Althingi, official Icelandic titles in the ministers list; Icelandic names of bodies from island.is and althingi.is, read 2026-10-12. For: Government of Iceland in Icelandic
  • government.is · checked Constitution of the Republic of Iceland, read 2026-10-12: the cited articles. For: Executive power
  • althingi.is · checked Althingi, XML list of ministers and per-minister ministerial history (radherrar, radherraseta), queried for 12.10.2026, read 2026-10-12: 11 ministers and portfolios. Start dates: Fallback: Wikipedia, Cabinet of Kristrun Frostadottir (page last edited 2026-04-04), because the Althingi XML only gives session start dates; cross-checked against the Althingi portfolio list. For: Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Minister of Industries, Minister of Justice, Minister of Social Affairs and Housing and 16 more
  • althingi.is · checked Althingi, ráðherraseta XML for Daði Már Kristófersson (nr 1448), read 2026-10-12: fjármála- og efnahagsráðherra since 08.09.2026 (158th session), party Viðreisn; party set to Liberal Reform Party (C). For: Daði Már Kristófersson as Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs

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