Guðmundur Ingi Kristinsson

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Guðmundur Ingi Kristinsson (German transcription Gudmundur Ingi Kristinsson , born July 14, 1955 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic politician ( Flokkur fólksins ).

Life

Guðmundur Ingi Kristinsson is a trained carpenter. He worked as a policeman in Grindavík and Keflavík and then as a salesman in a hardware store in Reykjavík. From 2004 to 2012 he was a member of the advisory board of the Icelandic trade union VR . Since 2010 he has been the chairman of BÓT , an organization that advocates the rights of pensioners and the fight against poverty. Since 2016 Guðmundur Ingi Kristinsson has been deputy chairman of the Flokkur fólksins party .

In the parliamentary election on October 28, 2017 , Guðmundur Ingi was elected as a candidate by Flokkur fólksins for the southwest constituency in the Icelandic parliament Althing . As of January 2019, he is a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Welfare and the Icelandic delegation to the Nordic Council . Of the four candidates from Flokkur fólksins who were able to enter parliament in the 2017 election, two were expelled from the party at the end of 2018 as a result of the Klaustur affair , so that Guðmundur Ingi Kristinsson and the party founder Inga Sæland are the only remaining parliamentarians of this party. Since then, Guðmundur Ingi Kristinsson has also been chairman of the Flokkur fólksins parliamentary group, replacing Ólafur Ísleifsson , who was now non-party and who held this office from 2017 to 2018 and later joined the Center Party .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingvar Þór Björnsson: Oddvitar framboðslista Flokks fólksins kynntir ( Icelandic ) In: visir.is . September 30, 2017. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c Æviágrip: Guðmundur Ingi Kristinsson ( Icelandic ) Alþingi. December 7, 2018. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
  3. ↑ Laurence Peter: Iceland scandal over MPs' crude and sexist bar talk ( English ) In: BBC News . December 3, 2018. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
  4. ↑ Æviágrip: Ólafur Ísleifsson ( Icelandic ) Alþingi. January 2, 2020. Accessed April 6, 2020.
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personal data
SURNAME Guðmundur Ingi Kristinsson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gudmundur Ingi Kristinsson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic politician (Flokkur fólksins)
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Reykjavík