Þóra Arnórsdóttir

Þóra Arnórsdóttir, 2020

Þóra Arnórsdóttir (born March 18, 1975 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic TV presenter and was a candidate for the 2012 presidential election in Iceland .

Life

Þóra's mother is the business administrator Nína Sæunn Sveinsdóttir, her father Arnór Hannibalsson is a philosophy professor. She is the youngest of five siblings. Þóra grew up in the city of Kópavogur . She visited the Kársnesskóli, the Þinghólsskóli and the Menntaskólinn við Hamrahlíð . She studied at the University of Iceland and the University of Genoa and did her bachelor's degree in philosophy . She completed her Masters in international and development economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC and Bologna . She also became a licensed tourist guide at the Icelandic tourist guide school Leiðsögumannaskóli Íslands.

In 1998, Þóra became a journalist at Iceland's public service broadcaster, RÚV , and also worked on Rás 2, the second public service program, and Iceland's largest private TV station Stöð 2 . At RÚV she worked for the discussion program Kastljós and the program Útsvar . She has also been involved in many programs with a political content (elections, crisis in Iceland, etc.). In addition, Þóra was a lecturer at the University of Iceland for the master's degree in International Relations and worked as a tourist guide. In 2001 she was a guest of the NDR in Hanover and Hamburg as a scholarship holder of the German-Northern European Program of the IJP-Internationale Journalisten Program eV .

Þóra's husband is the RÚV reporter Svavar Halldórsson, with whom she has three children. Another three children come from a previous relationship with Svavar.

She lives in Hafnarfjörður .

politics

Þóra announced her candidacy for the 2012 presidential election in Iceland in spring 2012 and was temporarily ahead of incumbent Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson in polls . Ultimately, however, he was re-elected with 52.8 percent of the vote; Þóra achieved 33.2 percent in second place.

She is in favor of a referendum on Iceland's accession to the EU . She is more critical of referendums than Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, who repeatedly resorted to this method during his presidency to allow the people to legitimize laws passed by the Icelandic parliament Althing . In Þóra's opinion, such votes increase the distance between the people and parliament.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} thoraarnors.is: About Thora. Retrieved June 29, 2012 ( Memento July 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ thoraarnors.is: Press. Retrieved June 29, 2012 ( Memento June 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ ^{a b} dradio.de: With baby in the election campaign. Thóra Arnórsdóttir wants to become President of Iceland. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
4. ↑ In a survey by the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Iceland at the end of April 2012, it reached 49 percent; see. Iceland Review: Þóra Arnórsdóttir in the lead in the presidential race. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Welt Online: Thóra Arnórsdóttir. Patchwork mother (37) wants to heal Iceland's wounds. Retrieved June 29, 2012

Web links

• Web presence

Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .