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Sigurður Páll Jónsson
Sigurður Páll Jónsson (born 23 June 1958) is an Icelandic politician from the Centre Party. He represented Northwest in the Parliament of Iceland from 2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ... to 2021. Personal life Sigurður Páll Jónsson was born in Borgarnes. He lives in Stykkishólmi and is married to Hafdísi Björgvinsdóttir. The couple have three children and three grandchildren. His son Bragi Páll Sigurðsson is a left wing journalist. References 1958 births Sigurður Páll Jónsson Living people Sigurður Páll Jónsson Sigurður Páll Jónsson {{Iceland-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigurður Páll Jónsson 2017
Sigurður () or Sigurdur may refer to: *Sigurður Bragason (born 1954), Icelandic baritone * Sigurður Breiðfjörð (1798–1846), Icelandic poet *Sigurður Eggerz (1875–1945), Prime Minister of Iceland from 1914 to 1915 and from 1922 to 1924 * Sigurður Ragnar Eyjólfsson (born 1973), Icelandic football manager and former professional striker * Sigurður Grétarsson (born 1962), former Icelandic footballer who played as a striker * Sigurður Guðjónsson, an Icelandic contemporary artist * Sigurdur Helgason (airline executive) (1921–2009), innovator in low-cost airlines * Sigurdur Helgason (mathematician) (1927–2023) researcher in integral geometry and symmetric spaces * Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson (born 1962], Icelandic politician and Prime Minister * Sigurður Jónsson (other) * Sigurður Kári Kristjánsson (born 1973), Icelandic Member of Parliament for the Independence Party *Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon (born 1957), Icelandic historian specialising in microhistory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre Party (Iceland)
The Centre Party () is a Nordic agrarian, populist and conservative political party in Iceland, established in September 2017. It split from the Progressive Party due to leadership disputes, when two factions decided to band up as a new party before the 2017 Icelandic parliamentary election. Ideology A self-proclaimed liberal and centrist party, the party is generally considered by some conservative and populist. The party proposes to reform the state's banking sector, maintaining government ownership of Landsbankinn, while reclaiming the state's stake in Arion Bank, which is controlled by hedge funds, and redistributing a third of its shares among Icelanders. It also plans to sell the government's existing stake in Íslandsbanki. The party supports scrapping indexation on debts and opposes the accession of Iceland to the European Union. At the inaugural meeting of the party in Reykjavik on 8 October, the party's chairman and founder Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwest (Althing Constituency)
Northwest () is one of the six multi-member Constituencies of Iceland, constituencies of the Althing, the national legislature of Iceland. The constituency was established in 2003 following the re-organisation of constituencies across Iceland when the Northwestern (Althing constituency), Northwestern constituency (excluding Siglufjörður Municipalities of Iceland, municipality which was merged into the Northeast (Althing constituency), Northeast constituency) was merged with the Western (Althing constituency), Western and Westfjords (Althing constituency), Westfjords constituencies. Northwest consists of the Regions of Iceland, regions of Northwestern Region (Iceland), Northwestern, Western Region (Iceland), Western and Westfjords. The constituency currently elects six of the 63 members of the Althing using the Open list, open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2024 Icelandic parliamentary election, 2024 parliamentary election it had 22,351 registered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of Iceland
The (; ), anglicised as Althingi or Althing, is the supreme national parliament of Iceland. It is the oldest surviving parliament in the world. The Althing was founded in 930 at (' thing fields' or 'assembly fields'), about east of what later became the country's capital, Reykjavík. After Iceland's union with Norway in 1262, the Althing lost its legislative power, which was not restored until 1904 when Iceland gained home rule from Denmark. For 641 years, the Althing did not serve as the parliament of Iceland; ultimate power rested with the Norwegian, and subsequently the Danish throne. Even after Iceland's union with Norway in 1262, the Althing still held its sessions at until 1800, when it was discontinued. It was restored in 1844 by royal decree and moved to Reykjavík. The restored unicameral legislature first came together in 1845 and after 1874 operated in two chambers with an additional third chamber taking on a greater role as the decades passed until 1991 when Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Icelandic Parliamentary Election
Early parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 28 October 2017. On 15 September 2017, the three-party coalition government collapsed after the departure of Bright Future over a scandal involving Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson's father writing a letter recommending a convicted child sex offender have his "honour restored". Bjarni subsequently called for a snap election, which was officially scheduled for 28 October 2017 following the dissolution of the Althing. Though many opinion polls in the run-up to the election indicated an increase in support for the Left-Green Movement, the Independence Party retained its position as the Althing's largest party. Following the election, four-party coalition talks led by the Left-Greens ensued; however, after the Progressive Party rejected the possibility, a three-party coalition led by the Left-Greens including the Independence Party and Progressive Party was negotiated. After formally receiving the mandate to form a coalition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borgarnes
Borgarnes () is a town located on a peninsula at the shore of Borgarfjörður in Iceland and is the largest town in the Borgarbyggð municipality with a population of about 3800 residents. It is a main junction in Iceland and the gateway to the Snaefellsnes National Park. Iceland's capital Reykjavík is 69 kilometers from the center of Borgarnes. The second largest bridge in Iceland, the Borgarfjarðarbrú, connects traffic to and from Reykjavík. Local area There are four national forests in the region (approximately 40 km from the town center) which are overseen by the Icelandic Forest Service. The forest in Borgarfjörður are mix of birch woods and native conifers. These forests are Vatnshorn , Norðtunga , Selskógar , Stalpastaðir and Jafnaskarð . Borgarnes has the oldest and tallest of the birch trees in Iceland. History Borgarnes was founded in the late nineteenth-century, in a region that served as the setting of Egil's Saga. The town draws its name fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Births
Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles. ** Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls towards Earth from its orbit and burns up. * January 13 – Battle of Edchera: The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol. * January 27 – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the "Lacy-Zarubin Agreement, Lacy–Zarubin Agreement", is signed in Washington, D.C. February * February 1 – Egypt and Syria unite to form the United Arab Republic. * February 2 – The ''Falcons'' aerobatic team of the Pakistan Air Force led by Wg Cdr Zafar Masud (air commodore), Mitty Masud set a World record loop, world record performing a 16 aircraft diamon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre Party (Iceland) Politicians
Centre Party or Center Party may refer to: Active parties * Åland Centre * Centre Alliance * Centre (Croatian political party) * Estonian Centre Party * Centre Party (Faroe Islands) * Centre Party (Finland) * Centre Party (Germany) * Centre Party (Hungary) * Centre Party (Iceland) * Centre Party of Ireland, formerly Renua * Center Party (Iraq) * Lithuanian Centre Party * Centre Party (Nauru) * Center Party (Norway) * Centre Party (Norway) * Centre Party (Poland) * Centre Party (Sweden) * Centre Party (Turkey) Historical parties *Centre Party (Greenland) *Centre Party (Israel) * Centre Party (Jersey) *Centre Party (Netherlands) ** Centre Party '86 * Centre Party (New South Wales) * Centre Party (Rhodesia) * Centre Party (Sweden, 1924) *Centre Party (Tasmania) * Center Party (Thailand), now the Fair Party * Commonwealth Centre Party *National Centre Party (Ireland) * Irish Centre Party (1919), political party in Ireland in 1919 See also * Centrism * Centrist Party * Nordic agr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Members Of The Althing 2017–2021
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organizatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
