Sigríður Á. Andersen

Sigríður Á. Andersen (2017)

Sigríður Ásthildur Andersen (born November 21, 1971 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic politician of the Independence Party . She was Minister of Justice in the Katrín Jakobsdóttir cabinet from November 30, 2017 to March 13, 2019 , after having held this position in the Bjarni Benediktsson cabinet since January 2017 .

The lawyer Sigríður Á. Andersen was licensed as a local court attorney in 2001. From 2007 to 2011 she was Chair of the Spanish-Icelandic Chamber of Commerce and since 2013 a board member of the American-Icelandic Chamber of Commerce. From 1995 to 2006 she was on the editorial board of Vefþjóðviljinn , an Icelandic weblog with articles on a libertarian and neo-conservative orientation.

In 2015 she took the seat of the late Pétur Haraldsson Blöndal in the Icelandic parliament Althing . She was able to hold this in the early parliamentary election on October 29, 2016 .

She is the representative of the Reykjavík South constituency . As of December 2016, Sigríður is a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Economic Affairs and Trade and is a member of the Icelandic delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly .

Since January 11, 2017, Sigríður Á. Andersen Minister of Justice in the Bjarni Benediktsson cabinet (2017) , which consisted of members of the Independence Party and the Viðreisn and Björt framtíð parties . Together with Jón Gunnarsson , Minister for Transport and Municipalities, she had succeeded Interior Minister Ólöf Nordal , whose ministry was thus divided into two departments.

Sigríður Á. Andersen has retained her office as Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Katrín Jakobsdóttir , a coalition government made up of the left-green movement , the independence party and the progressive party . Since four judges of a newly created court of appeal had been installed by her bypassing parliament, the European Court of Human Rights convicted Iceland in March 2019 for violating Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights (right to a fair trial). Subsequently, Sigríður declared Á. Andersen resigned as Minister of Justice on March 13, 2019. This was made clear after a press conference at which her statements were initially taken by the media in terms of a temporary break. Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir , Minister for Tourism, Industry and Innovation, also temporarily headed the Ministry of Justice until Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir was appointed as the new Minister of Justice in September 2019 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Magnús Sveinn Helgason: As Althingi reconvenes record numbers of women take their seat in parliament ( English ) In: Iceland Magazine . Vísir. September 8, 2015. Accessed February 15, 2016.
2. ↑ Brynjólfur Þór Guðmundsson: þessi taka á saeti thingi ( Icelandic ) In: ruv.is . October 30, 2016. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
3. ↑ Ellefu lyklar skiptu to hendur ( Icelandic ) In: mbl.is . Morgunblaðið . January 11, 2017. Retrieved January 13, 2017.
4. ↑ Dagmar Trodler: EU Court of Justice condemns Iceland for illegally appealing judges . In: Iceland Review . March 12, 2019. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
5. ↑ Sigríður Stigur til hliðar ( Icelandic ) In: ruv.is . March 13, 2019. Retrieved March 17, 2019: “Upphaflega stóð að Sigríður stigi tímabundið til hliðar, eins og skilja mátti orð hennar á blaðamannafundi. Nú er ljóst að hún biðst lausnar og segir því af sér. "
6. ↑ Þórdís Kolbrún Gylfadóttir New Minister of Justice ( English ) In: Iceland Review . March 14, 2019. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
7. ^ Vala Hafstað: Second Youngest Minister in Icelandic History ( English ) In: Iceland Monitor . mbl.is. September 6, 2019. Accessed September 24, 2019.

Web links

• Profile on the homepage of the Icelandic Parliament (isl.)
• Brief profile on the homepage of the Icelandic Parliament (Engl.)

Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .