Career
On 12 October 2012 he decided to leave his party, in order to become a new party member and top list election candidate for the newly founded party Bright Future in Reykjavik Constituency South.
On 12 October 2012 he decided to leave his party, in order to become a new party member and top list election candidate for the newly founded party Bright Future in Reykjavik Constituency South.
In April 2009, he was elected as a Member of Althingi for the Reykjavik Constituency South, representing the Social Democratic Alliance (Samfylkingin). During his elected term from 2009-2013, he worked as a member of the Committee on the Environment, Committee on Fisheries and Agriculture, Committee on General affairs, Committee on Transport and Communications, and was a part of the Icelandic delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly.