« I'm going to be a broad -minded »
« I feel very good, but I will admit that I am a little trembling inside me right now. I suspected that this would be equal and it was actually a knife, « Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir said in a conversation with journalists shortly after she was introduced as the right -wing chairman of the Independence Party at the party meeting in Laugardalshöll today.
She said that Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir has depended on the boyish and vigorous election campaign which was the Independence Party to great honor.
After that, she did not dare to say what the difference between her supply and Áslaug Örna was included but only 19 votes, Guðrún received 931 votes and Áslaug Arna 912. Others received 15 votes and 4 ballots were either blank or invalid.
« Of course there will be changes »
The chairman was asked if it was anything different to work with such a small difference and simply replied that victory was a victory.
« I know we will join, synchronized and strongly out of this meeting, » Gudrun said.
Guðrún said he was pleased with the national meeting and the conduct of the election, but reiterated what she came up with in her candidacy that she wants to look at it and help the party's leadership being chosen more openly than is done today.
Asked if changes are expected under her leadership, Gudrun said changes always follow new people, but she intends to allow herself to take a deep breath, « but of course there will be changes, » she said.
Gudrun was then asked specifically whether she intended to replace the parliamentary party chairman. She said she did not trust herself to say that at this moment.
Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir received a very good election. She said she was proud to have taken the opportunity.
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First women chairman
Guðrún is the first women's chairman of the party and said it was a good feeling and long overdue for a woman to lead the party.
Gudrun said that a wider group would be re -enlarged to expand the party.
« We have lost many from us, for example, smaller employers and have lost people to other categories. I want to re -enact this breadth and that we are this civil power in Iceland we have been and should be. «
Another round trip ahead?
What will be the first steps to regain the category in the place he wants to be?
« I have advocated that we have to strengthen the party's business work and that I want to get a better relationship with the party companies and our partners around the country. Don't I just go on another round trip now. «
How do you intend to present the uniqueness of the Independence Party.
« I'm not going to pull the Independence Party out on the outer name in each direction, » Gudrun said, referring to the Rise on the left on the right wing and the Central Party to the right on the same wing. « I'm going to be a broad county. »
