Takes Leave From Parliamentary Duties to Undergo Treatment in Vogur

Ingvar Þóroddsson, MP for Viðreisn and second vice-president of the Alþing, has taken leave from parliamentary duties to undergo alcohol treatment in Vogur.

Ingvar Þóroddsson, MP and leader of Viðreisn in the Northeast constituency and second vice-president of the Alþing, has taken leave from parliamentary duties to undergo alcohol treatment. Ingvar announced this in a post on Facebook this morning. There, he says that last autumn it dawned on him that he and alcohol did not go together. "I saw that I had a drinking problem and needed to stop. I took important but at times difficult steps in the rig…