The politics of Norway take place in the framework of a parliamentary,representative democratic constitutional monarchy. Executive power is exercised by the Council of State,the cabinet,led by the prime minister of Norway. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the legislature,the Storting,elected within a multi-party system. The judiciary is independent of the executive branch and the legislature.
The Storting is the supreme legislature of Norway,established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years based on party-list proportional representation in nineteen multi-seat constituencies. A member of Stortinget is known in Norwegian as a stortingsrepresentant,literally "Storting representative".
Kåre Isaachsen Willoch was a Norwegian politician who served as the 30th prime minister of Norway from 1981 to 1986 and as leader of the Conservative Party from 1970 to 1974. He previously served as the Minister of Trade and Shipping from August to September 1963 and 1965 to 1970,and as the president of the Nordic Council in 1973.
iTromsø is a daily newspaper published in Tromsø,Norway.
The Conservative Party or The Right is a liberal-conservative political party in Norway. It is the major party of the Norwegian centre-right,and was the leading party in government as part of the Solberg cabinet from 2013 to 2021. The current party leader is former Prime Minister Erna Solberg. The party is a member of the International Democrat Union and an associate member of the European People's Party.
Erling Folkvord is a Norwegian politician for the Red party,and a former member of the Parliament of Norway. A revolutionary socialist,he was one of the leading members of the Workers' Communist Party and the Red Electoral Alliance before they merged to form Red. He sat as a member of the Parliament of Norway from 1993 to 1997,becoming the first socialist to the left of the Socialist Left Party and the Labour Party in parliament since 1961. He later lost his position in 1997,and has been a candidate for parliament ever since. He has been a member of the Oslo City Council from 1983 to 1993,and again since 1999. Folkvord has become one of the best-known Norwegian politicians on the left who is not connected with the Labour Party and the Socialist Left Party.
Berge Ragnar Furre was a Norwegian historian,theologian and politician for the Socialist Left Party.
Kåre Erling Gjønnes was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. He had been County Governor of Sør-Trøndelag from 1993,but went on leave from 1997 till 2000 to serve as Minister of Agriculture. He was also Minister of Nordic Cooperation in 2000.
Mona Scobie Røkke was a Norwegian and politician for the Conservative Party. She was the Minister of Justice from 1981 to 1985.
AndréOktay Dahl is a Norwegian law graduate who was a politician representing the Conservative Party. He served as a representative of Akershus in the Storting and was first elected in 2005. He was a reserve candidate in the two previous periods,and took Jan Petersen's seat while Petersen was a cabinet minister from 2001-2005.
Erling Johannes Norvik was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He was a member of the Norwegian Parliament and was briefly the acting County Governor of Finnmark county from September 1945 until November 1945 at the end of World War II.
Svenn Thorkild Stray was a Norwegian politician and a member of the Conservative Party of Norway. He served as a member of parliament from 1958 to 1985,as president of the Nordic Council in 1968,and as foreign minister of Norway from 1970 to 1971,and 1981 to 1986.
Anders Bjørnsen Werp is a Norwegian politician of the Conservative Party. He was mayor of Øvre Eiker from 1999 until he was elected to the Stortinget from Buskerud in 2009. He was also deputy representative in the Stortinget from 1997 until 2005. Werp had formerly worked as an economic consultant and local political advisor for Norges Skogeierforbund. He was the leader of Buskerud Høyre from 1998 to 2008,and sat on Høyre's central board during the same period. He was reelected to the Storting for the period 2013–2017.
Nikolai Eivindssøn Astrup is a Norwegian politician representing the Conservative Party. He served as Minister of Local Government from 2020 to 2021. Previously he served as the Minister of International Development from 2018 to 2019 in Prime Minister Erna Solberg's cabinet,being the first since Heikki Holmås from 2012 to 2013. In 2019,he also became the first Minister of Digitalization after the Christian Democratic Party joined the Cabinet,a post he served in until 2020.
Bente Bakke is a Norwegian politician. She was a two-term MP for the Conservative Party. September 14,2015 she was elected as member of the municipal council in Vestby,representing the Green Party.
Mudassar Hussain Kapur is a Norwegian politician. He is a member of the Conservative Party and has served as a member of the Storting for Oslo since 2013.
John Christian Elden is a Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Conservative Party. Both his father,John Elden,and his great-uncle,O.C. Gundersen,were lawyers. Elden has been a defender in a number of high-profile criminal cases.
Kjell-Børge Freiberg is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party,formerly for the Progress Party who served as Minister of Petroleum and Energy from 2018 to 2019. He was also an MP for Nordland from 2017 to 2021 and mayor of Hadsel from 2007 to 2015.
Per Kristian Norvik is a Norwegian journalist and editor.
