Eirik Sivertsen

Eirik Sivertsen, 2018
Photo: Tore Sætre

Eirik Sivertsen (born March 17, 1971 in Trondheim ) is a Norwegian politician of the social democratic Arbeiderpartiet (Ap). Since 2009 he has been a member of parliament in Storting .

Life

In the period from 1990 to 1992 Sivertsen worked as an insurance assistant, then he attended a secondary school again until 1995. From 1995 to 1998 he worked as project secretary for the then Fylkeskommune Sør-Trøndelag . Between 1997 and 2003, Sivertsen was also responsible as ombudsman for schoolchildren and apprentices in the Fylkeskommune Nordland . He then worked at Bodø University of Applied Sciences until 2007 .

Storting MP

Sivertsen entered the Norwegian national parliament in Storting for the first time in the 2009 general election . There he represents the constituency of Nordland and initially became a member of the local and administrative committee, where he remained after the 2013 election . In June 2015 he moved to the Transport and Communications Committee during the current legislative period, where he served as deputy chairman. Following the 2017 election , Sivertsen moved to the Foreign and Defense Committee, where he was a member until January 2018. He then became a member of the local and administrative committee again, and was its second deputy chairman until March 2020.

Withdrawal after internal party investigations

In March 2020, he announced that he no longer wanted to run for a seat in Storting in the 2021 election . The reason for this was that an internal party investigation was being carried out against him at the time, which found that he was violating the Sexual Harassment Policy . The party then asked Sivertsen to resign from his post as head of the Ap group in the local and administrative committee and he also offered to resign from his other posts.

Web links

Commons : Eirik Sivertsen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Eirik Sivertsen at the Storting (Norwegian, English )
• Eirik Sivertsen in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Markus Thonhaugen, Ole Marius Rørstad, Synnøve Sundby Fallmyr: Arbeiderpartiet: - Sivertsen har brutt retningslinjer mot seksuell trakassering. In: NRK. March 9, 2020, accessed July 27, 2020 (Norwegian).