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John-Ragnar Aarset (born 18 December 1973 in
John-Ragnar Aarset (born 18 December 1973 in Geilo
is a centre in the municipality of Hol in Viken county, Norway. Geilo is primarily a ski resort town, with around 2,500 inhabitants. It is situated in the valley of Hallingdal, 250 km from Oslo and 260 km from Bergen. The Bergen Line ...
) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party
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Aarset was a member of the Hol
Hol is a municipality in Viken county, Norway.
Administrative history
The area of Hol was separated from the municipality Ål in 1877 to become a separate municipality. In 1937 a part of neighboring Uvdal with 220 inhabitants moved to Hol munic ...
municipal council
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from 1991 to 1995. During the period 1995 to 2002, he was a member of the Buskerud county council
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Ireland
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. From 1998 to 2000 he was the leader of the Young Conservatives (''Unge Høyre''), the youth wing of the Conservative Party.
He served in the position of deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway
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from Buskerud
Buskerud () is a former county and a current electoral district in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark and Vestfold. The region extends from the Oslofjord and Drammensfjorden in the southeast to Ha ...
during the term 2001–2005 and 2005–2009.
In 2004, during the second cabinet Bondevik, Aarset was appointed political advisor 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 a ...
. He held the post until the change in government in 2005.
In 2013, upon the inauguration of Solberg's Cabinet
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, he was named a State Secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
Since December 2015 he is the Secretary-General of Høyre.References