Halldór Blöndal

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Halldór Blöndal is a politician of Independence Party (Iceland). (born August 24, 1938) Son of Kristjana Benediktsdottir, Bjarni Benediktsson's sister.^[clarify] He worked as a teacher and a jounalist from 1959 until 1980. Form 1971 to 1979 he frequently sat on Althingi as a substitute member. He gained a permanent seat in the Parliament in 1979, where he has served for Iceland's North Eastern Constituency. Counted as strong supporter of whaling due to his summertime jobs in whale processing from 1954 to 1974, but helped building whale watching tourism industry while he was Minister of Communication and Tourism 1991 to 1999. He was also Minister of Agriculture in the first term of Davíð Oddsson as prime minister from 1991 to 1995. From 1999-2005, Halldór was the president of the Althing and during his term the old house of Althingi was completely renovated and a new service building erected. He is now^[when?] chairman of the Committee of foreign affairs of Althingi.