Jón Bjarnason

For the Lutheran minister, see Jón Bjarnason (minister).

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is a patronymic, not a family name; this person is properly 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 - 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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Althing biography

Second cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

Ministers	Álfheiður Ingadóttir Árni Páll Árnason Guðbjartur Hannesson Gylfi Magnússon Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir Jón Bjarnason Katrín Jakobsdóttir Katrín Júlíusdóttir Kristján L. Möller Oddný Guðbjörg Harðardóttir Ögmundur Jónasson Össur Skarphéðinsson Ragna Árnadóttir Steingrímur J. Sigfússon Svandís Svavarsdóttir

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