Today is a day for the history books.
The world is about to get its first openly gay head of state.
Icelend's Johanna Sigurdardottir breaks all the moulds. She is a woman. She is 66. She is a Social Democrat. She is glamourous. She is openly gay and in a civil partnership. She has two grown-up children. She is popular, having been dubbed "Saint Johanna" - according to a report on page three of today's Independent - and hailed as an "unexpected but brilliant" choice to take her party's centre stage.
This is one progression to have emerged out of the global economic crisis.
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2 comments:
that's fab. but what does it have to do with the economic crisis?
Iceland went into economic meltdown in October. People took to the streets in droves when the authoritities denied reponsibility, but the leaders eventually threw in the towel and the government has resigned making way for new leadership. That was Johanna Sigurdardottir's big break.
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