|
Israels Venner På Stortinget
Friends of Israel in the Parliament of Norway ( no, Israels Venner på Stortinget) is a pro-Israel caucus group consisting of members of the Parliament of Norway. History In 1974 the group constituted a majority in the Parliament of Norway for the first time, with 86 members among the 150 parliamentary representatives. All political parties except for the Socialist Electoral League were represented. In 1981 the group had 100 members, but this number declined following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. In the 2005 the group had 28 members from three political parties; 16 from the Progress Party (FrP), 10 from the Christian Democratic Party (KrF) and 2 from the Conservative Party (H). One member, KrF's Jon Lilletun, died during the term. In comparison, the number of seats in parliament for each party was 38 from the Progress Party, 11 from the Christian Democratic Party and 23 from the Conservative Party. The group was chaired by Ingebrigt S. Sørfonn of the Christian Democ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea, and shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel also is bordered by the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively. Tel Aviv is the economic and technological center of the country, while its seat of government is in its proclaimed capital of Jerusalem, although Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem is unrecognized internationally. The land held by present-day Israel witnessed some of the earliest human occupations outside Africa and was among the earliest known sites of agriculture. It was inhabited by the Canaanites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Olav Syversen
Hans Olav Syversen (born 25 November 1966 in Skjervøy) is a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo in 2005. He previously served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament during the term 1989–1993. During the first cabinet Bondevik, Syversen was appointed political advisor in the Ministry of Justice and the Police. He left the position in 1999. In 2003, during the second cabinet Bondevik, he was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Children and Family Affairs. On the local level he was a member of Oslo city council from 1995 to 2003, being city administrative councillor (''kommunalråd'') since 1999. He was a member of the central party board from 1997 to 1999. He graduated with the cand.jur. degree from the University of Oslo in 2000. He has been involved in the European Movement The European Movement International is a lobbying association that coordinates the efforts of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bente Thorsen
Bente Thorsen (born 31 October 1958 in Karmøy) is a Norwegian politician representing the Progress Party. She has been a member of the Storting since following the 2009 parliamentary election as Rogaland's 12th representative. She was a deputy representative between 2005 and 2009. Prior to her election to parliament, Thorsen was a member of the Karmøy municipality council from 1987, and also a member of the ''formannskap'' between 1995 and 2009. She has been a member of the Rogaland county council between 1991 and 1995, and again between 1999 and 2003. Ahead of the 2009 election, Thorsen was nominated as the Progress Party's fourth candidate on the Rogaland ballot. Following the election there was some confusion about the result because of a calculation error at Statistics Norway which showed that Karmøy mayor Kjell Arvid Svendsen (KrF) had won the 12th seat instead of Thorsen. When this was corrected, it turned out that Thorsen had won the seat and that Svendsen was out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oskar Grimstad
Oskar Jarle Grimstad (born 8 November 1954) is a Norwegian politician representing the Progress Party (FrP) for Møre og Romsdal. He is a member of the Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment The Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment ( no, Energi- og miljøkomiten) is a standing committee of the Parliament of Norway. It is responsible for policies relating to petroleum, energy, hydroelectricity, environmental protection and re .... Grimstad was a member of the Progress Party's central board between 1999 and 2008. Grimstad was deputy mayor of Hareid between 1999 and 2003, and then a member of the Møre og Romsdal county council between 2003 and 2009. He was successfully nominated for the ''Storting'' in second place on FrP's Møre og Romsdal ballot ahead of the 2009 parliamentary election. Aside from politics, Grimstad has been a seaman, and a welder. Since 1976 he has been the director of three metalworking firms. Grimstad is married and has two adult daught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erlend Wiborg
Erlend Wiborg (born 20 January 1984) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party. He served as deputy mayor of Moss from 2011 to 2013, when he was elected as an MP for Østfold. He has previously served as deputy MP from 2005 to 2013. In parliament, Wiborg served as the first vice chair of the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Affairs from 2013 to 2017, before chairing the committee until 2021. Political career Local politics He has been a member of the Moss municipal council and the Østfold county council from 2003 to 2011. He also served as deputy mayor of Moss from 2011 to 2013. In March 2013, he notably said that the Sami flag should not be raised during Constitution Day celebrations, and that only the Norwegian flag should. He did however acknowledge that the Sami flag should be raised on other occasions. He was criticized by the President of the Sami Parliament, Egil Olli, who said the Wiborg fell in the line of "Progress Party politicians who do not understa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Per Sandberg
Per Sandberg (born 6 February 1960) is a Norwegian politician for the Capitalist Party and formerly the Progress Party who served as the Norwegian Minister of Fisheries from 2015 to 2018. Sandberg was a member of the Norwegian parliament from 1997 to 2017 (2005–2017 from the Sør-Trøndelag constituency, and before that from Nord-Trøndelag), and served as chair of the parliamentary standing committees on Justice, and Transport and Communications. He has additionally held the position of first deputy leader of the Progress Party from 2006 to 2018. In 1997 he was convicted of assault and battery of an asylum seeker. His status as a convicted felon has made him controversial in Norwegian politics. An outspoken politician with a blue-collar working background, Sandberg has stoked controversy on numerous occasions, and has been described, by former party chairman Carl I. Hagen as well as the media, as the "proto-typical Progress Party person" ( no, Ur-FrP'eren). Early life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tor André Johnsen
Tor André Johnsen (born 25 November 1968) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party. He has been a member of the Storting since 2013. Biography Johnsen was born on 25 November 1968. He hails from Ringsaker, and was elected member of the county council of Hedmark from 1999 to 2015. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Hedmark in 2013 where he is member of the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Affairs. Johnsen has sat on the municipal council in Ringsaker, Hamar and Stange. Johnsen considers himself bothered by electromagnetic hypersensitivity. In 2015, Johnsen was recommended by the Police Security Service to cut off contact with Russian diplomats whom PST considered to be Russian intelligence agents. Johnsen stated that he did not intend to follow the call from PST. After the parliamentary elections in 2017, Johnsen was reprimanded by the then Prime Minister Erna Solberg Erna Solberg (; born 24 February 1961) is a Norwegian politician and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Tybring-Gjedde
Christian Tybring-Gjedde (born 8 August 1963) is a Norwegian politician who represents the Progress Party. He has been a member of the Norwegian parliament since 2005, and was the leader of the Progress Party's Oslo chapter from 2010 to 2014. He is most widely known for his opposition to immigration, especially Muslim immigration, and rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. He believes immigration policy to be the single most important political issue facing Norwegian society. In 2014 he released his book about immigration politics titled ''Mens orkesteret fortsetter å spille'' (While the orchestra continues to play)."Tybring-Gjedde gir ut bok: – Innvandrere er privilegerte" ''TV 2''. 15 November 2014. In 2018 and 2020 he put forward U.S. President |
Morten Ørsal Johansen
Morten Ørsal Johansen (born 11 September 1964) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party. Early life and career Johansen was born in Sunndal. His father was a photographer and his mother a pay secretary. He attended school in Raufoss, in his future parliamentary constituency of Oppland. He graduated from secondary school there in 1983 with diplomas in arts and sciences. He worked for Raufoss Ammunition as a factory worker from 1984 to 1994 before being promoted to supervisor in the latter year. He continued to work in this capacity until 2000. In 2002, he received a Master of Arts degree from Gjøvik University College. Political career He had been a member of Vestre Toten municipal council since 1993 and of the executive committee from 1995 to 2011. He was a county councillor A county council is the elected administrative body governing an area known as a county. This term has slightly different meanings in different countries. Ireland The county councils created ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Svendsen
Kenneth Svendsen (born 2 August 1954 in Fauske) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party. Biography He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Nordland in 1997, and has been re-elected on two occasions. Svendsen held various positions in Fauske municipality council from 1987 to 2007. From 1991 to 1999 he was also a member of Nordland county council. He is vice-president A vice president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vice president is on ... of the Storting since 2009. References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Svendsen, Kenneth 1960 births Living people Members of the Storting Progress Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian Christians 21st-century Norwegian politicians 20th-century Norwegian politicians People from Fauske ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sivert Bjørnstad
Sivert Haugen Bjørnstad (born 3 October 1990) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party (Norway), Progress Party. He was elected to the Norwegian parliament in the 2013 Norwegian parliamentary election, 2013, becoming the parliament's youngest member.Cathrine Eide and Terje Dalen (11 September 2013)Sivert (23) blir yngst på StortingetTV2. Retrieved 13 September 2013 Subscription only Education He studies economy at BI Norwegian Business School in Trondheim. Political career Local politics Bjørstad was elected to the Trondheim city council and the Sør-Trøndelag County council (Norway), county council in 2011. He was re-elected in 2015 and sat until 2019. He was elected 2nd deputy leader of the Progress Party's Youth in 2012. Parliament Bjørnstad was elected to the Storting, the Norwegian parliament, in the 2013 Norwegian parliamentary election, 2013 election. He was re-elected since in 2017 Norwegian parliamentary election, 2017 and 2021 Norwegian parliamentary elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan-Henrik Fredriksen
Jan-Henrik Fredriksen (2 October 1956 – 8 March 2020) was a Norwegian politician representing the Progress Party (FRP). He was a representative of Finnmark in the '' Storting''. He was born in Kragerø, Telemark Telemark is a traditional region, a former county, and a current electoral district in southern Norway. In 2020, Telemark merged with the former county of Vestfold to form the county of Vestfold og Telemark. Telemark borders the traditional ..., and was first elected in 2005. Storting committees *2005–2009 member of the Healthcare committee. External links * Fremskrittspartiet - Biography References 1956 births 2020 deaths Progress Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting 21st-century Norwegian politicians People from Kragerø {{Norway-politician-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
