Presidential electionswere held inIcelandon 27 June 2020.[1]Absentee voting opened on 25 May 2020.[2]Incumbent presidentGuðni Th. Jóhannessonwas re-elected with 92% of the vote.
Guðmundur Franklín Jónsson,a businessman and activist, announced that he would run for the office of president in a Facebook-live video on 22 April.[5]
Several other persons announced their interest in running for the office, including Axel Pétur Axelsson, a self described social engineer, who was quoted as saying that his first matter of business as president would be to dismiss all members of the Icelandic government.[6]Only the incumbent president Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and challenger Guðmundur Franklín Jónsson gathered the required number of signatures to get on the ballot.[7]
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