OSLO, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Three Icelandic parties led by the Independence Party have agreed to form a center-right coalition government more than two months after the Nordic country held its parliamentary election, the parties said on Tuesday.
Independence Party chairman Bjarni Benediktsson, together with leaders of the Reform Party and Bright Future, presented the policy statement of the governing parties at a press conference in Reykjavik, Iceland's public broadcaster RUV reported.
The Independence Party will get six ministerial seats, including the office of the prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, while the Reform Party will have three and Bright Future will get two, according to the RUV report.
The three parties said they would let parliament vote on whether to hold a referendum on joining the European Union (EU), while admitting they had different positions on EU membership.
The Independence Party, one of the two current ruling parties, won 21 out of the 63 seats in the new parliament after winning 29 percent of the ballots cast in the Oct. 29 election.
However, the centrist Progressive Party, the other ruling party, finished fourth with only eight seats, 11 fewer than it had in the last parliamentary election in 2013.
The Left-Green Movement gained 10 seats with 15.9 percent of votes, while the Pirate Party also won 10 seats with 14.5 percent.
The Reform Party, Bright Future and the Social Democratic Alliance also crossed the 5-percent electoral threshold with seven, four and three seats respectively.
Together, the new center-right coalition holds a slim majority with 32 seats in parliament.
