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Guðbjartur Hannesson

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Prime Minister
  
Died
  
23 October 2015

Preceded by
  
Álfheiður Ingadóttir

Guðbjartur Hannesson httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Born
  
3 June 1950 (
1950-06-03
)

Political party
  
Previous office
  
Minister of Welfare (2011–2013)

Guðbjartur Hannesson (3 June 1950 – 23 October 2015) was an Icelandic politician and was welfare minister. He is affiliated with the Social Democratic Alliance (Samfylkingin). He won a seat in parliament for the Social Democratic Alliance in 2007. In September 2010 he was appointed Minister for Social Affairs and Health and was charged with merging his department with the Ministry of Labour and create a new Ministry for Welfare from January 2011. After the parliamentary election 27 April 2013 there was a change of government and on 23 May Eygló Harðardóttir became the new welfare minister, while Kristjáni Þór Júlíussyni became minister of Health. He died on October 23, 2015 after a very short battle with cancer.

References

Guðbjartur Hannesson Wikipedia


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