Jón Bjarnason (born 26 December 1943) is a former member of parliament of the

Althing The (; ), anglicised as Althingi or Althing, is the Parliamentary sovereignty, supreme Parliament, national parliament of Iceland. It is the oldest surviving parliament in the world. The Althing was founded in 930 at ('Thing (assembly), thing ...

, 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

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, 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