Geir H. Haarde

Geir H. Haarde served as the prime minister of Iceland from 2006 to 2009. Iceland operates as a unitary multiparty republic with a parliamentary democracy, where real power resides with the 63-member parliament, the Althingi. The executive branch is led by a cabinet that must maintain parliamentary support. During Haarde's tenure, Iceland experienced a significant financial crisis in 2008, leading to public outrage and protests known as the "Pots and Pans Revolution". A special investigative commission later found that Haarde had been negligent in failing to inform his cabinet about the impending bank crisis. He was succeeded by Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir in 2009.1234