Jón_Bjarnason

Jón Bjarnason

Jón Bjarnason

Icelandic politician

For the Lutheran minister, see Jón Bjarnason (minister).
This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Jón.

Jón Bjarnason (born 26 December 1943) is a former member of parliament of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament from 1999 to 2013. An agronomist by training, he served as Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture in the years 2009–2011.

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He is a former member of the Left-Green Movement. In 2013 he was a co-founder of Rainbow, a new eurosceptic political party. He did not get reelected in the 2013 parliamentary election.


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