"I feel like people voted with their hearts" Eyþór Árnason “I haven’t slept much, but I feel incredibly good. My heart is full of gratitude and also a lot of humility towards the trust the people are showing me and maybe the fact that there was a record-breaking turnout and I feel like the people voted with their hearts,” Halla Tómasdóttir, Iceland’s newly-elected president, told mbl.is earlier today.
Big news to take in When asked, Tómasdóttir said she hadn’t taken all of this in. “Of course, we stayed up here for the count, me and my closest family and friends. Then we took a moment and then we interviewed the media.
Now, we’re setting up here outside for the famous [presidential] wave,” she laughs. mbl.is/Brynjólfur Löve Over 200 people were outside her home on Klapparstígur in downtown Reykjavík.
“I wonder if I’ll be able to take this in for a while, at least not until I’ve had a good night’s sleep and maybe read all the beautiful messages I’ve received. This is, of course, huge news for anyone who gets this honor from their nation,” Tómasdóttir says. Young people active Tómasdóttir put a lot of emphasis on young people and speaking to them during her campaign.
When asked about what she thinks made the difference in reaching this group, she says two things were most important. “On the one hand, generational equality is important to me. The issues I have put to the forefront in my campaign are because I want the ne.
