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Jón Gnarr
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Actor, comedian, and former mayor of Reykjavik Jón Gnarr
talks about his political career—and why he founded the Best Party in
2009 to satirize his country’s political system. He promised to get the
dinosaurs from Jurassic Park into downtown parks, free towels at public
swimming pools, and a “drug-free Parliament by 2020.” Gnarr was soon
meeting international leaders and being taken seriously as the mayor of a
European capital. In his book How I Became the Mayor of a Large City in Iceland and Changed the World, he recounts how it all happened and describes his vision of a more enlightened politics for the future.
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