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Sep 26, 2021 8:17PM ET
So sexist, i will never visit there again
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Iceland will have a male-majority parliament after all, election recount shows
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Iceland's Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir attends a press conference in Oslo, Norway February 3, 2020. NTB Scanpix/Ole Berg-Rusten via REUTERS/File Photo
By Stine Jacobsen and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Iceland looked to have elected a woman-majority parliament but a recount of votes on Sunday showed there will still be more men than women in the chamber, state broadcaster RUV reported.
Thirty women were elected to the 63-seat parliament in Saturday's election, up from 24 in the previous vote. Earlier results before the recount late on Sunday had shown 33 women were elected.
The National Electoral Commission has not published the results on its website and could not immediately be reached for comment.
Only three countries - Rwanda, Cuba and Nicaragua - have more women than men in parliament, while Mexico and the United Arab Emirates have a 50/50 split, according to data from the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
In Europe, Sweden and Finland have 47% and 46% women's representation in parliament, respectively.
Iceland, a North Atlantic island of 371,000 people, was ranked the most gender-equal country in the world for the 12th year running in a World Economic Forum (WEF) report released in March.
Opinion polls had forecast the governing coalition would fall short of a majority, but a surge in support for the centre-right Progressive (NYSE:PGR) Party, which won five more seats than in 2017, pushed the coalition's total count to 37 seats, according to RUV.
Members of the current government, which consists of Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir's Left-Green Movement, the conservative Independence Party and the Progressive Party, said before the election they would negotiate continued cooperation if they held their majority.
President Gudni Johannesson said he would not hand a mandate to form a new government to any party but would await coalition talks among the three parties.
The Independence Party remained the biggest in parliament with 16 seats, unchanged from the last election. Party leader and former Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson said he was optimistic the three parties could form a coalition and he would not demand that he lead a new government, RUV reported.
The Left-Green Movement got eight seats, down from 11 in the 2017 election, although two parliamentarians left the party shortly after the last election.
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