Bjarni Benediktsson became prime minister of Iceland after the previous prime minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, resigned to run in the presidential elections on 1 June. Benediktsson is a member of the centre-right Independence Party, one of the three supporting the current governing coalition together with Jakobsdóttir’s Progressive (centre) Party and Green Left. Benediktsson had been Prime Minister for less than a year in 2017, Minister of Economy from 2017 to 2023 and then Minister of Foreign Affairs.
