Erna Solberg

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Erna Solberg, 2011

Erna Solberg (born  February 24, 1961 in Bergen , Hordaland ) is a Norwegian politician , has been the leader of the conservative Høyre party since 2004 and has been the prime minister of her country since October 16, 2013 .

Life

Erna Solberg was born as the daughter of office workers Inger Wenche Torgersen and Asbjørn Solberg († 1989), consultants for the Bergen Sporvei municipal transport company . She was diagnosed with dyslexia when she was 16 . After graduating from school in 1979, she studied sociology , comparative political science , statistics and social economics at the University of Bergen . 1986 Solberg received the academic degree candidata magisterii . In 1996 she married Sindre Finnes (* 1964), with whom she has a daughter (* 1998) and a son (* 1999) who were mostly looked after by the father.

Solberg was initially a member of the Bergen City Council from 1979 to 1983 and 1987 to 1989, before she was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1989 for the constituency of Hordaland (Bergen) . In the 1990s she got involved in budget policy and genetic engineering . She commented on artificial insemination and abortion . She showed a restrictive attitude, but defended the woman's right to self-determination. From 1993–1994 she was the chairwoman of the Conservative Women's Organization (HKL), after which she was the party's spokesperson for women's policy from 1994 to 1998.

In the second Bondevik cabinet, she worked from October 19, 2001 to October 17, 2005 as local and regional minister . Her administration was characterized by a certain uncompromising attitude , which earned her the nickname "Iron Erna" ( Jern-Erna ). It tightened immigration policy and reduced government grants to local authorities. On the other hand, it advocated a so far failed municipal structural reform in order to strengthen the efficiency of the smallest administrative units. In 2004 she took over the party leadership of the Conservatives and rose to become Deputy Prime Minister. In the subsequent opposition period, she led the conservative faction from 2005 to 2013. In parliamentary operations, she is considered objective, hardworking, well-informed and loyal.

Erna Solberg during the Munich Security Conference 2016

Since Høyre had the worst election result in its history in 2005 , Solberg's claim to leadership was controversial throughout the legislature. With the positive result in the 2009 parliamentary election , Solberg was firmly in the saddle. In addition, in competition with Siv Jensen from the right-wing populist Progress Party, she was able to assert herself as the opposition leader. Increasing poll numbers since 2010 made her the center-right candidate for the office of head of government in the 2013 election. The municipal and Fylkestings elections in autumn 2011 also resulted in strong votes.

Following the election victory in the Storting elections in 2013 , she led coalition negotiations that resulted in a minority government made up of Conservatives and the Progressive Party, the Solberg government . It is a minority government supported by Christian Democrats and liberal Venstre . She thus succeeded the Social Democrat Jens Stoltenberg . In the 2017 parliamentary elections , she again led her party's top candidate. Although it lost its approval, it was able to successfully form a minority government again, which now also included the liberal Venstre party in addition to the Conservatives and the Progress Party and which continued to rely on the support of the Christian Democratic force. In January 2019, the KrF also joined the coalition, making Solberg the first Norwegian state minister in a bourgeois majority government since 1985. After the Fremskrittspartiet (FrP) left the government, it has been leading a minority government again since January 2020.

literature

Web links

Commons : Erna Solberg  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b “Solberg, Erna. In: Munzinger Online “. Accessed September 12, 2017. https://www.munzinger.de/search/document?index=mol-00&id=00000029738&type=text/html&query.key=AOZkbHXR&template=/publikationen/haben/document.jsp&preview= .
  2. ↑ Norsk biografisk leksikon online , accessed on October 13, 2013
  3. ↑ Valgresultat.no. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Reinhard Wolff: New government in Norway: three women are at the helm . In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 15, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed February 5, 2019]).
  5. ↑ tagesschau.de: Norway gets its first majority government in a long time. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  6. ↑ David Vojislav Krekling: Her er Solberg-regjeringen 4.0. January 24, 2020, accessed on April 7, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
personal data
SURNAME Solberg, Erna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian politician, (Høyre), member of the Storting and Prime Minister
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergen , Hordaland