First cabinet of Katrín Jakobsdóttir
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Cabinet of Katrín Jakobsdóttir | |
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 45th Cabinet of Iceland | |
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| Date formed | 30 November 2017 |
| Date dissolved | 28 November 2021 |
| People and organisations | |
| President | Guðni Th. Jóhannesson |
| Prime Minister | Katrín Jakobsdóttir |
| No. of ministers | 11 |
| Member parties |
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| Status in legislature | Majority government (coalition) |
| Opposition parties | Social Democratic Alliance (S) Centre Party (M) Pirate Party (P) People's Party (F) Viðreisn (C) |
| History | |
| Election | 2017 parliamentary election |
| Predecessor | Bjarni Benediktsson |
| Successor | Katrín Jakobsdóttir II |
The First cabinet of Katrín Jakobsdóttir, nicknamed “The covid government” (Icelandic: Covidstjórnin), was formed on 30 November 2017, following the 2017 parliamentary election. The cabinet was led by Katrín Jakobsdóttir of the Left-Green Movement, who served as Prime Minister of Iceland.
The cabinet was a coalition government consisting the Independence Party, the Left-Green Movement and the Progressive Party.[1] Together they held 33 of the 63 seats in the Parliament of Iceland (i.e. Althing; Icelandic: Alþingi) and served as a majority government. In the cabinet, there were eleven ministers, where five were from the Independence Party, three were from the Left-Green Movement and three were from the Progressive Party.[2] After the election in 2017 the parties had 35 seats in the parliament, but since then two MPs have left the Left-Green Movement.[3][4]