Morten Ørsal Johansen (born 11 September 1964) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party.

Early life and career

Johansen was born in

Sunndal Municipality is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in the Nordmøre Districts of Norway, region located in the northeast part of Møre og Romsdal counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village o ...

. His father was a

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and his mother a pay secretary. He attended school in

Raufoss Raufoss is a town in Vestre Toten Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of the municipality. It is located about south of the larger town of Gjøvik. The town is located along the municipal border wi ...

, in his future parliamentary constituency of

Oppland Oppland is a former county in Norway which existed from 1781 until its dissolution on 1 January 2020. The old Oppland county bordered the counties of Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. The ...

. He graduated from secondary school there in 1983 with diplomas in arts and sciences. He worked for Raufoss Ammunition as a factory worker from 1984 to 1994 before being promoted to supervisor in the latter year. He continued to work in this capacity until 2000. In 2002, he received a

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degree from

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Political career

He had been a member of the

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Vestre Toten Municipality Vestre Toten is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Toten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rau ...

since 1993 and of the executive committee from 1995 to 2011. He was a

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in Oppland from 1999 to 2009. From 1999, he was the head of Progress Party in Oppland. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in the

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for Oppland and serves on the

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References

1964 births Living people People from Sunndal People from Vestre Toten Progress Party (Norway) politicians Oppland politicians Members of the Storting 2009–2013 Members of the Storting 2013–2017 Members of the Storting 2017–2021 {{Norway-politician-1960s-stub