Sigurjón Þórðarson (born 29 June 1964) is an

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ic politician. He was a member of the

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for the

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from 2003 to 2007, and returned to the Althing in the 2024 election for the People's Party. In 2010, he was elected leader of the Liberal Party. In the municipal elections in May 2010, Sigurjón was elected to the municipal council of

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. Sigurjón has a BS degree in biology from the

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and studied water pollution control technology at

Cranfield University Cranfield University is a postgraduate-only public research university in the United Kingdom that specialises in science, engineering, design, technology and management. Cranfield was founded as the College of Aeronautics (CoA) in 1946. Throug ...

. Sigurjón is a ''

goði Gothi or (plural , fem. ; Old Norse: ) was a position of political and social prominence in the Icelandic Commonwealth. The term originally had a religious significance, referring to a pagan leader responsible for a religious structure and com ...

''—similar to a

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priest—within

Ásatrúarfélagið (, ''Ásatrú Fellowship''), also known simply as , is an Icelandic religious organisation of Heathenry (new religious movement), heathenry (in Iceland also called , " faith"). It was founded on the first day of summer (Iceland), first day of s ...

.Paul Fontaine-Nikolov. "The Pagan MP". ''The Reykjavík Grapevine''.

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