Jón Bjarnason

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
Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture
In office
10 May 2009 – 31 December 2011
Prime MinisterJóhanna Sigurðardóttir
Preceded bySteingrímur J. Sigfússon
Succeeded bySteingrímur J. Sigfússon
Personal details
Born (1943-12-26) 26 December 1943 (age 81)
Political partyLeft-Green Mvt. (until 2013)
Rainbow (2013–)

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.

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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