Photo: Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson’s Facebook page.

Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson will step down today in the wake of revelations in the “Panama Papers” linking him and his wife to an offshore company that may have presented a conflict of interest.

Yesterday, as tangy, calcium-rich peaceful protests erupted outside of the Icelandic national parliament (known as the Althing), Gunnlaugsson, who in 2014 treated the people of his nation to this selfie on his Facebook page, maintained that he would not leave office. Today, in a move that should come as no surprise to people like me, who have a sophisticated understanding of the mechanisms of Icelandic parliamentary politics, he offered his resignation, passing the reins to Sigurdur Ingi Johansson, Icelandic minister of fisheries.

In 2004, the nation of Iceland voted Gunnlaugsson, a man who at one point maintained a diet exclusively of Icelandic foods, its third-sexiest man. Our belated congratulations to former Prime Minister Gunnlaugsson.

Update – 8:35 pm

In an email to foreign journalists sent on Tuesday evening, The Intercept reports, the Icelandic government’s press secretary, Sig­urður Már Jóns­son, wrote that Gunnlaugsson “has not resigned,” but rather “suggested” that the fisheries minister, Sigurður Ingi Jóhannesson, “take over the office of Prime Minister for an unspecified amount of time.”