Leader of the Leftist-Green Movement, Katrin Jakobsdottir, will become Iceland's first Green prime minister on Thursday (30 November), after agreeing to form a coalition government with the liberal conservative Independence Party and the centre-right Progressive Party.
Together the three parties hold 35 seats out of 63 in the Althingi, Iceland's parliament.
Two members of the Leftist-Green Movement are set to vote against the coalition in Thursday's parliamentary approval, technic...
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