Svenn Erik Kristiansen (born 30 May 1940) is a Norwegian teacher turned
politician
A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...
. He served as deputy mayor of
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
for a period before becoming mayor of Oslo for a period in 2007, when
Per Ditlev-Simonsen
Per Ditlev-Simonsen (born 12 June 1932) is a Norwegian politician. He was the mayor of Oslo, representing the Conservative Party, from 1995 to 2007. He stepped down on 23 August 2007 following the Swiss bank-account scandal.
Ditlev-Simonsen wa ...
resigned. Following the
2007 Norwegian local elections
Country-wide local elections for seats in municipality and county councils were held throughout Norway on 10 September 2007, with some areas polling on 9 September as well. For most places this meant that two elections, the municipal elections and ...
, Kristiansen did not continue as mayor.
References
Biography
1940 births
Living people
Progress Party (Norway) politicians
Mayors of Oslo
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