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Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson (born 20 April 1962) is an Icelandic politician, and was the Prime Minister of Iceland from April 2016 to January 2017. In October 2016 he announced his intention to resign as Prime Minister. He is the chairman of the Progressive Party.
Sigurður was appointed as the Prime Minister on 7 April 2016 following the resignation of Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson in the wake of revelations contained in the Panama Papers. He was elected as chairman of the Progressive Party on 2 October that year, narrowly ahead of incumbent chairman Sigmundur Davíð.
On 30 October 2016, due to the results of the previous day's elections, Jóhannsson announced his pending resignation as Prime Minister.
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Since 2013 he has served as Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture. He is a former Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources, a role which he held jointly with Fisheries and Agriculture until Sigrún Magnúsdóttir was appointed Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources at the end of 2014.
As a result of the ousting of prime minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson following the Panama Papers, the Progressive Party announced Sigurður as the interim prime minister pending the early election in the fall of 2016.