Talk:President of Iceland

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President of Iceland has "limited" powers

On the sentence:

"The president is elected to a four-year term by popular vote, is not term-limited, and has limited powers".

While this is true by convention (actual practice), in theory (constitutional powers), the President of Iceland is entrusted with a large degree of executive power and can even form and dismiss cabinets with full discretion. Ministers cannot even resign from their posts without being dismissed by presidential decree. This situation is in parallel to that of the President of Austria, as both countries have president-parliamentary (semi-presidential) constitutions, except their actual role is only to exercise their wide powers on the advice of their heads of government. --B.Lameira (talk) 16:48, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You are right, most scholarly material refers to Iceland as a parliamentary republic but only really because of the passive roles of past presidents. If you strictly interpret the constitution then it is more akin to a semi-presidential system and a few scholars have pointed that out. Stefán Örvar Sigmundsson (talk) 00:23, 16 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The article on the President of Austria provides information about the disparity between their constitutional powers and political convention. This is something similar to what happens in Iceland and worthy of being mentioned in the article. --B.Lameira (talk) 16:55, 17 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

His Excellency

Where does this style of address come from? There's no source for it and as far as I know there's no direct Icelandic equivalent. Margretarson (talk) 12:08, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]