English name:

Progressive Party

Status:

Member (joined at Stockholm Congress 1983)

Address:

Hafnarstraeti 33 (2 Haed)

P O Box 453

IS-121 Reykjavík

Telephone:

00 354 562 4480

Fax:

00 354 562 3325

E-mail:

framsokn@islandia.is

Homepage on the World Wide Web:

http://www.islandia.is/framsokn

Leader:

Mr Halldór Asgrímsson, MP

Secretary-General:

Mr Egill Heidar Gíslason

Treasurer:

Mrs Unnur Stefánsdóttir

Responsible for Women's Issues:

Mrs Johanna Engilbertsdottir

International Relations Secretary:

Mr Sigurour Eythorsson

- direct e-mail address:

sigey@islandia.is

Date of the last general Elections:

8 April 1995

- Votes:

38485

- Percentage:

23.3

- Number of seats in parliament:

15/63

- Date of the next general Elections:

May 1999

Membership:

7200

Parliamentary Group:

Thingflokkur Framsóknarmanna

Althingi

IS-150 Reykjavík

- Telephone

00 354 563 0500

- Fax

00 354 563 0750

- E-mail

gunnar@althingi.is

Government or Opposition:

In coalition with the Conservatives(Independence Party)

- Minister(s):

Mr Halldór Asgrímsson (Foreign Affairs); Mr Finnur Ingólfsson (Trade and Industry); Mr Guomundur Bjarnason (Agriculture and Environment); Mrs Ingibjörg Pálmadóttir (Health); Mr Páll Pétursson (Social Affairs).

Information last updated on 03/06/98