Jón Bjarnason (born 26 December 1943) is a former

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of the

Althing The Alþingi (''general meeting'' in Icelandic, , anglicised as ' or ') is the supreme national parliament of Iceland. It is one of the oldest surviving parliaments in the world. The Althing was founded in 930 at ("thing fields" or "assembly ...

, the

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ic parliament from 1999 to 2013. An agronomist by training, he served as Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture in the years 2009–2011. He is a former member of the

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. In 2013 he was a co-founder of Rainbow, a new

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political party. He did not get reelected in the 2013 parliamentary election.

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Althing biography
Living people 1943 births Jon Bjarnason Jon Bjarnason Jon Bjarnason Jon Bjarnason {{Iceland-politician-stub