Andrés Ingi Jónsson (born 16 August 1979) is an Icelandic MP, who represented Reykjavík North as a member of the

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from 2017 to 2024. He was first elected to the

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in 2016 as a member of the

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and again in 2017, later leaving the party in protest. He has an MA in War, Violence and Security from the

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and a BA in Philosophy from the

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. After his studies, he worked as a journalist and a committee secretary for the Constitutional Council.

Political focus

Andrés Ingi joined the Left-Green Movement during the

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and took a seat on the party's ticket for the 2009 elections. During the time of the 2009-2013 left-wing government, Andrés worked as the

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to both the

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and the Minister for the Environment. He first took a temporary seat in parliament in the summer of 2015, as a substitute for

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, later winning a permanent seat in the

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. In April 2019, Andrés proposed a bill to hold a referendum on withdrawal from NATO membership. In late-2019, he left the party in protest over the government coalition agreement, stating that "often compromises have fallen far short of our ideals." In October 2020, he proposed a bill to lower the voting age in Iceland to 16. In November 2020, he announced he would be introducing a bill to lower the speed limit in urban areas from 50 km/h to 30 km/h. In December 2020, he proposed a bill to make menstrual products free in Iceland. The bill was defeated in Parliament by a vote of 27 against to 26 for. In January 2021, he called to amend the law on gender recognition to abolish the 9,000 ISK fee. Later that month, he supported a bill that would have made

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illegal in Iceland. After sitting as an independent for a year and a half, he joined the Pirate Party in February 2021. In May 2021, he criticised the Directorate of Immigration for evicting refugees who had refused to participate in pre-deportation COVID screening from refugee centres.

References

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