US EditionLilja Alfreðsdóttir Elected Progressive Party Chair
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Lilja Alfreðsdóttir Elected Progressive Party Chair
Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir, former MP and minister, was elected as the head of Framsóknarflokkurinn (The Progressive Party) during the party’s assembly last weekend. Lilja received a majority vote constituting 58 percent of the total ballots. She is the first elected female chair of the party in history — the second to serve the position. From 1995-1999, former MP and minister Valgerður Sverrisdóttir’s duties as vice chair led her to assume offic…
Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir was today elected chairwoman of the Progressive Party after having been deputy chairwoman of the party for almost a decade. She is the first woman to be elected to the position. Valgerður Sverrisdóttir was until now the only woman to have held the chairwomanship of the Progressive Party, but she took over as deputy chairwoman when Guðni Ágústsson resigned. Lilja Dögg's victory today was decisive. 607 votes were cast, of …
Lilja Alfreðsdóttir was today elected chairwoman of the Progressive Party after an exciting election campaign against Ingibjörg Isaksen. The results were streamed on Vísir and discussed live with the newly elected chairwoman and the one who lost.
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