Snorri Másson (born 1 May 1997) is an Icelandic politician from the Centre Party. In the

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he was elected to the

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. Snorri worked for a time as a journalist at

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but then started working as a reporter at

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and has been a podcast host on the podcast Skoðanabræður together with his brother , which they started in 2019. He operates a

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. He also publishes opinion pieces on his blog, Ritstjórinn. Snorri decided to run for the Centre Party in Reykjavík in the

. He was elected in Reykjavík South constituency. Snorri's parents are Margrét Jónsdóttir Njarðvík, rector of Bifröst University, and Már Jónsson, a historian. His wife is Nadine Guðrún Yaghi. She has also worked as a journalist and is a podcast host.

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