Johanne Gaup (born 23 October 1950, in
Tromsø
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) is a
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politician for the
Centre Party.
She was elected to the
Parliament of Norway
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from
Finnmark
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county in 1993, but was not re-elected in 1997.
[ In 1994, she became the first politician to speak one of the ]Sami languages
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from the Parliament chair. From 1997 to 2000, during Bondevik's First Cabinet
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, she was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development ( no, Kommunal- og regionaldepartementet) is a Norwegian ministry established in 1948. It is responsible for the housing and building, regional and rural policy, municipal and ...
.
On the local level, she was a member of Finnmark county council
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Ireland
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from 1987 to 1991, and deputy mayor of Karasjok Municipality
( se, Kárášjohka ; fkv, Kaarasjoki) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Karasjok. Other villages include Dorvonjárga, Šuoššjávri, and Váljohka.
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from 2003 to 2007. She chaired Finnmark Centre Party from 1987 to 1991. From 1998 to 2000 she chaired the Centre Party Women's Association (''Senterkvinnene''), during which period she was also a member of the central party board.
References
1950 births
Living people
People from Karasjok
Members of the Storting
Centre Party (Norway) politicians
Finnmark politicians
Norwegian Sámi politicians
Norwegian state secretaries
20th-century Norwegian politicians
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