are secret. The provisions of Article 15., 1. para., of Act no. 58/1961, which stipulates, that these elections should be secret, is certainly among the fundamental provisions in Icelandic law concerning public elections. According to Þorvaldur Gylfason (the most popular candidate in the election) this was 'a bizarre technical complaint about the way the election to the constituent assembly had been conducted'. After receiving their election certificate (kjörbréf) on 2 December 2010, the elected delegates were informed on 27 January 2011, that the election certificates had been revoked by the National Election Commission. The following day, all of the Commission members tendered their resignation citing the circumstances that had arisen and the harmony necessary for the Commission to carry out its functions. Parliament appoints the members Parliament began the same day to deliberate whether and how to continue the process. It was decided on 25 February 2011 that the elected assembly members would be appointed by Parliament to a Constitutional Council with basically the same role. A resolution passed which appointed most of the delegates that had been elected. The Parliament voted thus: All members of Parliament for the Independence Party were against this solution. Six of the seven who abstained were members of the governing coalition. Proposed constitutional amendments The changes proposed by the Assembly included: a referendum on abolishing the state church (polls indicate 73% would vote in favour of separation of church and state); a number of changes to government, including not automatically making the biggest party's leader prime minister, introducing a ten-year limit for PM terms, and that a vote of no confidence should have to include a proposed replacement PM; obliging the state to provide internet access to all citizens; introducing a three-term limit for the president; allowing 15% of voters to put bills to parliament or call for a referendum on proposed laws; restricting government size to ten ministers, and barring ministers from being MPs at the same time; and declaring Iceland's natural resources public property. The constitution draft was finished on 29 July 2011 and presented to the Althing on the same day. The proposed changes were approved in a referendum on 20 October 2012. References Elections in Iceland Iceland Constitutional Constitution of Iceland Iceland Annulled elections ru:Выборы в Учредительное собрание Исландии (2010)