&quot;The prime minister told (his party&#39;s) parliamentary group meeting that he would step down as prime minister and I will take over,&quot; the Progressive party&#39;s deputy leader and Agriculture Minister Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson told a live broadcast. 
	- AFP

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