Jón Steindór Valdimarsson (born 27 June 1958) is an Icelandic politician from

Viðreisn The Viðreisn (, officialy known in English as Liberal Reform Party) is a liberal centre-right political party in Iceland that was founded on 24 May 2016 but had existed as a political network since June 2014. It split from the Independence Party, ...

. He represented the

Southwest constituency Southwest ( is, Suðvestur) is one of the six multi-member constituencies of the Althing, the national legislature of Iceland. The constituency was established as Reykjanes in 1959 following the nationwide extension of proportional representation ...

in the

Parliament of Iceland 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 ...

from

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to 2021. He was born in

Akureyri Akureyri (, locally ) is a town in northern Iceland. It is Iceland's fifth-largest municipality, after Reykjavík, Hafnarfjörður, Reykjanesbær and Kópavogur, and the largest town outside Iceland's more populated southwest corner. Nicknamed ...

. Jón Steindór graduated with stúdentspróf from MA-collage in 1978, a law degree from the University of Iceland in 1985 and an MPM from the Department of Engineering at Reykjavik University in 2013. In 2022, he founded the European Movement (Evrópuhreyfingin) which wishes Iceland to join the European Union.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Valdimarsson, Jon Living people 1958 births People from Akureyri 21st-century Icelandic politicians Viðreisn politicians Members of the Althing University of Iceland alumni