The Constitutional Assembly of 2010
As part of the Kitchenware Revolution, in June, 2010 Alþingi approved laws to have a people Constitutional Assembly, that would work over the 2009 National Assembly proposes, to get a collective insight for a new constitutional reform of Iceland. That work ended in the election of 25 people of no political sign on 26 October 2010. The Supreme Court of Iceland invalidated the results of the election on January 25, 2011 following complaints about several faults in how the election was conducted., but the Parliament decided that those 25 elects would be a part of a Constitutional Council and the Constitutional change went on. In 29 July 2011 the draft was presented to the Parliament.
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