Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
Johanna Sigurdardottir (pronounced), (born 4 October 1942) is a former Icelandic politician and the former Prime Minister of Iceland. She has been a politician for many years. She was Iceland' s Minister of Social Affairs and Social Security from 1987-1994 and 2007-2009. She has been a member of the Althing (Iceland' s parliament) for Reykjavik constituencies since 1978. She has been re-elected eight times. She became Iceland' s first female Prime Minister on 1 February 2009, the world' s first openly gay head of government of the modern era.
Johanna is a social democrat and Iceland' s longest-serving member of Parliament. In the 1990s, when she lost a bid to head the party, she lifted her fist and declared" Minn timi mun koma!" --" My time will come!" --a phrase that became a popular Icelandic expression.
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