Bjornar Moxnes

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Bjørnar Moxnes, 2016

Bjørnar Moxnes (born December 19, 1981 in Oslo , Norway ) is a Norwegian politician and party leader of the Norwegian communist and socialist- revolutionary party Rødt .

Life

Moxnes grew up in the north beach in Oslo, with a mother was the nurse and a father who worked in a kindergarten. He became politically active in the 1990s and then became a member of Rød Ungdom (Red Youth), the youth organization of the AKP .

He studied sociology at the University of Oslo. In his master's thesis, he examined the professional mobility of politicians.

In 2004 Moxnes became head of Rød Ungdom . In 2010 he became deputy chairman of Rødt, and in May 2012 he became chairman and successor of Turid Thomassen . Since 2011 he has been parliamentary group leader in the Oslo City Council.

In the 2017 parliamentary elections in Norway , he was elected as the first and only member of his party to the Storting . Only Erling Folkvord of the predecessor organization AKP (through Rød Valgallianse - Red Election Alliance ) had achieved this in the 1993 election.

Web links

Commons : Bjørnar Moxnes  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rødt party leadership on the party's website; accessed on July 16, 2017. (Norwegian)
  2. Bjørnar Moxnes: Med makt i bagasjen: En studie av politikerelitens yrkesmobilitet , Master's thesis 2010, reviewed on February 6, 2018. (Norwegian)
  3. ^ Dagsavisen: Den røde og ranke , 17. August 2013 Web.archive.org, checked February 6, 2018. (Norwegian)