Guðmundur Steingrímsson (born 28 October 1972) is an

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

ic politician. He is the son and grandson of former Icelandic Prime Ministers

Steingrímur Hermannsson Steingrímur Hermannsson (pronounced ; 22 June 1928 – 1 February 2010) was an Icelandic politician who served as prime minister of Iceland from 1983 to 1987, and again from 1988 to 1991. He was the chairman for the Progressive Party from 197 ...

and Hermann Jónasson, respectively.

Career

Guðmundur was a member of the

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for

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from 2013 to 2016, as a member of Bright Future. He was previously elected for the

Northwest Constituency Northwest () is one of the six multi-member 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 constit ...

in 2009, as a member of the Progressive Party, the party of his father and grandfather, but later announced his resignation from the party. He had previously run for office from a different constituency as a member of the

Social Democratic Alliance The Social Democratic Alliance (, ) is a Social democracy, social democratic List of political parties in Iceland, political party in Iceland. The party is positioned on the Centre-left politics, centre-left of the political spectrum and their ...

. Guðmundur is a musician and published author. He has also worked in television and journalism.

References

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