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A Presidential election was held in Iceland on 30 June 2012. The result was a victory for Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, who defeated his nearest rival, Thóra Arnórsdóttir, by nearly 20% of the vote. He will now serve a record fifth term as president of Iceland. If one of the female candidates had won, Iceland would have had all its leading governing and religious positions held by women; the female president would be head of state, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir would be head of government, Ásta Ragnheiður Jóhannesdóttir would be the Althing speaker, while Agnes M. Sigurðardóttir would have been the head of the Church of Iceland. ==Candidates and campaign== There were six candidates: *The incumbent president, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, initially stated he would not seek re-election,〔http://english.forseti.is/media/PDF/2012_01_01Aramotaavarp_Enska.pdf〕 but then stated on 4 March that he would run for a fifth term, after receiving a petition of over 30,000 voters in favour of his candidacy. Speaking in Selfoss, he said that "under normal circumstances I would have come to a different conclusion, but more than 30,000 Icelanders, which is a significant part of all the voters in Iceland, requested that I continue. Many significant matters that are likely to lead to conflict and confrontations are going to be on the agenda in the coming years."〔 *Ari Trausti Gudmundsson, a writer, geophysicist and formerly of the Communist Party of Iceland, but now an independent. *Hannes Bjarnason, a farmer who lived in Norway for 14 years. He seeks to enhance the place of "morality" in the public debate and to "safeguard" national interests. *Dr. (Herdís Thorgeirsdóttir ), a lawyer and professor of constitutional law and human rights at Bifröst University, announced her candidacy on 30 March. She called a press meeting that day and said her campaign would be an experiment on democracy, whether it was possible to run without the backing of powerful financial actors and political parties. She referred to the financial collapse in 2008 and the Parliamentary investigative report which concluded that the main reason for the collapse were the close ties between politics and the corporate world seriously damaging the democratic process. Her candidacy was an attempt to increase accountability in the democratic process by not accepting funding from corporations as it is crucial in the struggle against prevailing corruption to limit the influence of money in elections. She is the (President ) of the European Women Women Lawyers' Association and Iceland's representative at the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe. *Thóra Arnórsdóttir, a journalist and news presenter. She announced her candidacy on 4 April and received the necessary 500 signatures in one weekend. *Andrea Jóhanna Ólafsdóttir, former chairwoman of Hagsmunasamtök heimilanna, a non-governmental organisation founded in the wake of the 2008–2012 Icelandic financial crisis. A vocal critic of both government and financial institutions, she announced her candidacy on 1 May. She supports the minimum wage of 193,000 krona. Two other candidates who were originally reported to be standing in the election, later dropped out: *Jón Lárusson, a police inspector charged with investigating tax fraud since the economic crisis. He claims to be apolitical and has opposed membership of the EU.〔 *Ástþór Magnússon, previously a candidate in the 2004 election, a pacificist and a businessman, announced his candidacy on 3 March 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Icelandic presidential election, 2012」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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