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Sveinung Rotevatn (born 15 May 1987) is a Norwegian politician for the
Liberal Party. Rotevatn comes from
Nordfjordeid,
Sogn og Fjordane, and has a master's degree in law from the
University of Bergen. He served as Minister of Climate and the Environment from 2020 to 2021.
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History and profile
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"> Prior to that, he served as a state secretary at the same department from 2018 to 2020 under then minister
Ola Elvestuen.
Career
Young Liberals
Rotevatn became the leader of the
Young Liberals of Norway
Young Liberals of Norway ( no, Unge Venstre) (NUV) is the youth league of the Norwegian political party Venstre. Young Liberals was founded on 27 January 1909, with Anders Kirkhusmo as the first leader. The current president is Sondre Hansmark, ...
, the Liberal Party's youth wing, in 2010 and was succeeded in October 2013 by Tord Hustveit.
Other
In 2013,
Bergens Tidende
''Bergens Tidende'' is Norway's fifth-largest newspaper, and the country's largest newspaper outside Oslo.
''Bergens Tidende'' is owned by the public company Schibsted ASA. Norwegian owners held a mere 42% of the shares in Schibsted at the end ...
called him the biggest political talent in Norway.
Parliament
Rotevatn was elected an MP from the
Sogn og Fjordane county constituency in the
2013 Norwegian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 8 and 9 September 2013 to elect all 169 members of the unicameral Storting. The centre-right coalition obtained 96 seats, while the incumbent red–green coalition government obtained 72 seats and ...
. He failed to win re-election in the
2017 election, but was later appointed State Secretary to the Department of Justice and Public Security when the Liberal Party went into coalition government with the Conservative Party and the Progress Party on 17 January 2018.
He was re-elected to the Storting in the
2021 election, this time from Hordaland.
In January 2022, both he and his successor as environment minister,
Espen Barth Eide
Espen Barth Eide (born 1 May 1964, in Oslo) is a Norwegian politician and political scientist. He is currently serving as the Minister of Climate and the Environment in Jonas Gahr Støre's government. He has been a been a member of the Norwegian ...
, agreed that Norwegian politicians hadn't done enough to fight climate change. Rotevatn stated: "I take responsibility for every ton of CO2 we emitted and did not emit when I was Minister of Climate. I'm glad the emissions went down when the Liberal Party ruled, but it has not gone down fast enough".
Minister of Climate and the Environment
On 24 January 2020, following the
Progress Party's withdrawal from government, he was appointed Minister of the Environment.
Party deputy leader
In May 2020, he announced his intention to run for the party leadership in September to succeed outgoing leader
Trine Skei Grande
Trine Skei Grande (born 2 October 1969) is a Norwegian politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party of Norway from 2010 to 2020. She also served as Minister of Education from January to March 2020,; and as Minister of Culture and Gend ...
. At the time, he became the first person to announce his run for leader following Grande's decision to resign.
On 23 August, he was designated deputy leader of the party, with
Abid Raja as second deputy and Melby as party leader, unanimously by the party's election committee.
At the party conference in September, he was elected first deputy leader, with Melby as leader and Raja as second deputy, unopposed.
References
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1987 births
Living people
Liberal Party (Norway) politicians
21st-century Norwegian politicians
Ministers of Climate and the Environment of Norway