And so, as the foreign media reported on the prime minister’s resignation and countless “Iceland Best in the World for Fighting Corruption!” internet memes were being launched around the world, we Icelanders knew that we were basically back to square one. The government was the same as before, albeit with a minor, virtually meaningless, reshuffle. Or as my husband so succinctly put it, we had “the same old soup in the same old bowl”.

The coup de grace in this ludicrous series of events came in the evening, when the foreign media was sent a press release by the prime minister’s office in which it was clearly stated that the prime minister had not, in fact, resigned, but merely “stepped aside”, and had asked his deputy to take over “for an unspecified amount of time”.

We laugh. Because it is farcical. Yet it is really not funny at all. And the truth is that the Icelandic people are angry. Even more angry than we were in 2009 when the government was forced out of office through mass protests that went on day after day. We’re pretty furious, actually. OK: livid.
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The Icelandic government must resign. The Icelandic people need more than a blundering disappearing act by a prime minister who will continue to run things behind the scenes. And there are other culprits. Bjarni Benediktsson, who is finance minister, has also been linked to an offshore company, as has the interior minister, Ólöf Nordal. Their involvement is perhaps not as extensive as that of the prime minister, but their credibility is ruined. We no longer trust them. And the fact that they refuse to recognise that demonstrates their level of incompetence to serve in public office better than anything else.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/commentisfree/2016/apr/06/2009-icelanders-farce-president-prime-minister-charlatans-hyprocrisy