Prime Minister of Iceland, David Gunnlaugsson, in the center of the scandal included in the so-called Panama Papers not want to leave his position permanently and in a statement from his office circulated on Tuesday night specifies that has not resigned.
The prime minister has not resigned and remains president of the Progress Party, "stated in writing. has just proposed that its second Ingi Jóhannsson temporarily takes office, it is added.
On Tuesday, the Progress Party announced that David Gunnlaugsson had offered his resignation as head of government. His name appeared linked to business information on companies in tax havens opaque.
Papers of Panama called reference data filtration opaque offshore companies. One of those companies belonging to the wife of Gunnlaugson and is based in the Virgin Islands.
The statement underlined the Gunnlaugsson neither fortune nor his wife hid some in no time the Icelandic tax authorities.