Rigmor Brøste (born 1965) is a Norwegian politician and civil servant. She is serving as the acting County Governor of

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ...

county from 2019 up to when Else-May Botten will take over as the official governor of the county. Brøste received her

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degree from the

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. She worked in municipal government from 1999 to 2006 for

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and from 2006 to 2012 for

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. Since 2012, she has worked as an assistant county governor for Møre og Romsdal county. In 2018, the Governor

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retired and the government of Norway appointed Else-May Botten as the new governor, but since she is currently serving in the

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, she cannot take office as the next governor until 2021 when she leaves the Parliament. The government then appointed Brøste as the acting governor to act until Botten can take office.

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