Helga Pedersen is a Norwegian politician,former Minister,and member of the Storting,who served as the deputy leader for the Labour Party from 2007 to 2015. A native of Sør-Varanger Municipality,she served between 2003 and 2005 as the County Mayor of the northernmost Finnmark county. From 2005 to 2009 she served as Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs,becoming the youngest member of the Labour-led Red-Green Coalition headed by Jens Stoltenberg.
Jan Tore Sanner is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party who has held several ministerial positions in Erna Solberg's government between 2013 and 2021. He was also the party's deputy leader from 2004 to 2022,having first been second deputy for the first four years and first deputy for the last fourteen. Sanner has also been a member of parliament for Akershus since 1993.
Eva Kristin Hansen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She briefly served as the President of the Storting from October to November 2021. She has also served as an MP for South Trøndelag since 2005. She was also leader of the Workers' Youth League from 2000 to 2002.
The Red Party is a socialist political party in Norway. It was founded in March 2007 by a merger of the Red Electoral Alliance and the Workers' Communist Party. A Marxist party,it has been described as left-wing and far-left on the political spectrum. In its political programme,the Red Party sets the creation of a classless society to be its ultimate goal,which the party says is "what Karl Marx called communism". The party's other goals are replacing capitalism with socialism,an expansive public sector and nationalisation of large enterprises. It strongly opposes Norway becoming a member of the European Union.
Kjell Ingolf Ropstad is a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party,who served as the Minister of Children,Family and Church Affairs and the leader of the Christian Democratic Party from 2019 to 2021. He has been a member of the Norwegian Parliament,the Storting,since 2009.
Kirsti Bergstø is a Norwegian politician serving as the leader of the Socialist Left Party since March 2023. She previously served as one of the party's deputy leaders from 2017 to 2023.
Lubna Boby Jaffery is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She has served as minister of culture and equality since 2023 and a deputy member of parliament for Hordaland since 2009. She previously served as Bergen city commissioner for labour,social affairs,and housing from 2019 to 2021.
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.
Ingrid Fiskaa is a Norwegian activist and politician for the Socialist Left Party.
The 1994 national convention of the Progress Party of Norway was held from 15 April to 17 April at the hotel BolkesjøTuristhotell in Bolkesjø,Telemark. It was originally set up to be a normal convention with 157 delegates in a non-election year,but because of mounting antagonism between a traditionalist and a libertarian faction,it became clear some months before the conventions that personal positions could be at stake. The party leader seat,held by Carl I. Hagen since 1978,was up for re-election. The deputy leaders Ellen Wibe and Hans J. Røsjorde was not up for election until 1995,but there were talks about forming a motion of no confidence against Wibe. The political disagreements roughly corresponded to a cleavage between two factions.
Bjørnar Moxnes is a Norwegian politician and activist representing the left-wing political party,the Red Party in the Storting. Moxnes opposes the European Union,characterizing Norway's participation in the EEA as undemocratic. Moxnes describes himself as a socialist. He served as the leader of the Red Party from 2012 to 2023,when he resigned in the wake of stealing a pair of sunglasses from a shop at Oslo Airport Gardermoen. Moxnes had previously served as the party's deputy leader from 2010 to 2012.
Kristján Mímir Kristjánsson is a Norwegian politician representing the Red Party. He is currently a member of the Storting for Rogaland since 2021. He was formerly a city councilor in Stavanger and a political journalist for Klassekampen.
Olaug Vervik Bollestad is a Norwegian nurse and politician for the Christian Democratic Party who is a member of Parliament for Rogaland since 2013. She served as the party leader between 2021 and 2024,having been deputy leader from 2015 to 2021. She served as Minister of Agriculture and Food from 2019 to 2021.
Kjersti Stenseng is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party currently serving as the party secretary since 2015. She also served as a deputy member of the Storting from Oppland from 2013 to 2017.
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.
Dag Inge Ulstein is a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party.
Marie Sneve Martinussen is a Norwegian musician and politician representing the Red Party. She has represented Akershus in the Storting since 2021 and served as the party's first deputy leader from 2012 to 2023,and leader since 2023.
Marte Mjøs Persen is a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party. She served as minister of labour and social inclusion from 2022 to 2023,and minister of petroleum and energy from 2021 to 2022. She served as the mayor of Bergen from 2015 until being elected to the Storting in 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.
Ane Breivik is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
