Randaberg is a municipality in Rogaland county,Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Jæren,at the northern end of the Stavanger Peninsula. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Randaberg.
The Green Party is a centre-left green political party in Norway. The party holds three seats in the Parliament of Norway and also has representation in municipal councils and county councils.
Arne Rettedal was Norwegian engineer,businessperson and politician for the Conservative Party. He is best known as the Minister of Local Government and Labour from 1981 to 1986,mayor of Stavanger from 1965 to 1967 and 1972 to 1981 and county mayor of Rogaland from 1988 to 1991.
Raymond Johansen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He served as Governing Mayor of Oslo from 2015 to 2023. A former member of the Socialist Left Party,Johansen previously served as the Oslo city commissioner for transport and environment from 1992 to 1995,when his party withdrew from the city cabinet. After joining Labour,he served as the party secretary from 2009 to 2015.
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 the county elections ran concurrently. In addition,several municipalities held direct mayoral elections.
Ketil Solvik-Olsen is a Norwegian politician of the Progress Party. He served as the party's first deputy leader from 2021 to 2023. He also served as Minister of Transport and Communications from 2013 to 2018 and as the party's second deputy leader from 2013 to 2019.
Eirik Lae Solberg is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He has served as the governing mayor of Oslo since 2023 and was previously the Oslo City Commissioner for Finance from 2014 to 2015. Lae Solberg has also been a deputy member of parliament for Oslo since 2021,having previously done so between 1993 and 1997 for Buskerud.
Hadia Tajik is a Pakistani-Norwegian jurist,journalist and politician from the Labour Party. She served as Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion from 2021 to 2022. She previously served as Minister of Culture from 2012 to 2013. She was 29 years of age at the time and became the youngest minister to serve in the Norwegian government. She is the first Cabinet member that is a Muslim. Tajik has served as a Member of Parliament representing Rogaland since 2017,and Oslo from 2009 to 2017. She was also the party's deputy leader from 2015 until 2022.
Guri Melby is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. She has served as the party leader since 2020 and Minister of Education from 2020 to 2021.
Hans Andreas Limi is a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Progress Party. He is currently an MP for the Akershus constituency since 2013 and the party's first deputy leader since 2023. He previously served as the party's parliamentary leader from 2017 to 2020.
Rasmus Johan Michael Hansson is a Norwegian biologist,civil servant,environmental activist and a former national spokesperson for the Green Party. He led the Norwegian chapter of World Wide Fund for Nature from 2000 to 2012. In 2013,he was elected to the Parliament of Norway as the first representative for the Green Party.
Olaug Vervik Bollestad is a Norwegian nurse and politician for the Christian Democratic Party who is a member of Parliament for Rogaland since 2013 and party leader since 2021,having been deputy leader from 2015 to 2021. She served as Minister of Agriculture and Food from 2019 to 2021.
Tina Bru is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. From 2020 to 2021,she served as the Minister of Petroleum and Energy. She was elected to the Storting from Rogaland in 2013 and became a member of the Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment. She was reelected to the Storting for the period 2017–2021,and continued as a member of the Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment.
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 11 September 2017 to elect all 169 members of the unicameral Norwegian Parliament,the Storting. The non-socialist parties retained a reduced majority of 88 seats,allowing Prime Minister Erna Solberg's Conservative-Progress coalition to remain in government. The Liberal Party joined the coalition in January 2018 but it remained a minority cabinet until the Christian Democratic Party joined the coalition in 2019. The three largest centre-left parties won 79 seats. The Green Party retained its single seat,while the Red Party won its first ever seat.
Une Aina Bastholm is a Norwegian politician and former leader of Green Party. She represented Oslo in the Storting from 2017 to 2021 and during this time was the only member of her party with a parliamentary seat. She was elected to represent Akershus following the 2021 election.
Framtiden i våre hender is an idealistic organization in Norway that advocates green consumption and resource justice. The Norwegian name literally translates to The Future in Our Hands.
Lan Marie Nguyen Berg is a Norwegian politician from the Green Party. She currently serves as an MP for Oslo since 2021 and as one of the party's deputy leaders since 2022. Berg previously served as Oslo City Commissioner for transport and the environment from 2015 to 2021,when she resigned following a confidence vote.
Jon-Ivar Nygård is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He has served as minister of transport since 2021. He previously served as the mayor of Fredrikstad from 2011 to 2021.
Arild Hermstad is a Norwegian politician for the Green Party,who has served as the party leader since 2022. He previously served as Party spokesperson,alongside Une Bastholm,from 2018 to 2020,and then the deputy leader from 2020 to 2022.
The 2023 Norwegian local elections were held on 11 September 2023. Voters elected representatives to municipal and county councils,which are responsible for education,public transportation,healthcare,elderly care,waste disposal,the levy of certain taxes,and more. All council seats were up for election across the 15 counties and 357 municipalities of Norway.
