Torstein Tvedt Solberg | |
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Member of the Storting | |
Assumed office 1 October 2013 | |
Constituency | Rogaland |
Deputy Member of the Storting | |
In office 1 October 2009 –30 September 2013 | |
Constituency | Rogaland |
Personal details | |
Born | Stavanger,Rogaland,Norway | 2 March 1985
Political party | Labour |
Domestic partner | Ina Libak |
Children | 1 |
Alma mater | University of Oslo |
Torstein Tvedt Solberg (born 2 March 1985) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He is currently a member of parliament for Rogaland since 2013,having previously been a deputy member between 2009 and 2013.
Solberg attended Stavanger Cathedral School. He obtained a bachelor's degree at University of Rogaland a master's degree in Culture,Environment and Sustainability at the University of Oslo in 2013. [1]
He was a member of Stavanger city council from 2003 to 2011. He was active in Rogaland Workers' Youth League (AUF) for several years and headed it in 2005. He worked as a secretary for Rogaland AUF from 2005 to 2006 and worked as international secretary of the national from 2007 to 2009. [1]
Tvedt Solberg was elected leader of the Rogaland Labour Party in 2020,succeeding Stanley Wirak. He was replaced by mayor of Gjesdal Frode Fjeldsbøat the 2022 convention. [2] [3]
He served as a deputy representative to the Storting from Rogaland between 2009 and 2013. [4] He got the second spot on Rogaland Labour list for the 2013 Norwegian parliamentary election,considered to be a safe mandate for the Labour Party. [5] He was re-elected in 2017 and 2021. He announced in April 2024 that he wouldn't be seeking re-election at the 2025 election. [6]
From September 2012 to June 2013,he was a political advisor to Minister of Trade and Industry Trond Giske. [1]
Tvedt Solberg is in a domestic partnership with former Workers' Youth League leader Ina Libak,with whom he has one child. [7]
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