Iceland elects its first female-majority parliament

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Iceland has elected a female-majority parliament, a landmark for sex equality successful the North Atlantic land nation. Results tallied Sunday amusement that pistillate candidates person won held 33 seats successful Iceland’s 63-seat parliament, the Althing. The effect came successful an predetermination that saw centrist parties marque the biggest gains. The 3 parties successful Iceland’s outgoing conjugation authorities — the Independence Party, the Progressive Party and the Left Greens — won a full of 37 seats, gaining 2 from the past election. The 3 ruling parties haven’t announced whether they volition enactment unneurotic for different word and it volition instrumentality days, if not weeks, for a caller authorities to beryllium formed and announced.