Geir Inge Sivertsen

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Geir Inge Sivertsen (2017)

Geir Inge Sivertsen (born August 29, 1965 ) is a Norwegian politician of the conservative Høyre party . From November 2019 he was State Secretary in the Solberg government , and on January 24, 2020 he was appointed Minister of Fisheries . On February 28, 2020, he announced that he wanted to resign, and on March 2, he was finally adopted.

Life

Sivertsen is an engineer, he graduated from Trondheim University in 1992 . From 2003 he worked in his own company as a structural engineering consultant. In 2011 he was elected mayor of the former Lenvik municipality , in whose local parliament he had sat since 1999. On January 1, 2020, this municipality was transferred to the newly formed Senja municipality as part of the state- wide municipal reform . After the local elections in September 2019, he was elected Deputy Mayor of Senjas by parliament. When the Fylkestingswahl took place at the same time, he moved into the Fylkesting of the new province of Troms og Finnmark . Before that he was a member of the Fylkesting of the former province of Troms .

For the legislative period 2005 to 2009 as well as for the 2017 and 2021 he is the so-called Vararepresentant for the constituency of Troms in the Norwegian parliament, the Storting . As such, he does not belong to parliament, but could move up if party colleagues from his constituency fail.

Ministerial office

On November 4, 2019, Sivertsen began his work as State Secretary in the Ministry of Economy and Fisheries . On January 24, 2020, after the Fremskrittspartiet (FrP) left the government, he became Minister of Fisheries in the Solberg government, where he replaced the FrP politician Harald Tom Nesvik .

Controversy and resignation

In February 2020 it became known that Sivertsen had received bridging allowance of 120,000 kroner, i.e. the wage of one and a half months, from the Senja municipality . The local parliament approved this in December 2019 after submitting a corresponding request. However, this was not a lawful decision, as Sivertsen immediately took up a new position as State Secretary and the new wages should have been deducted from the payments.

Sivertsen is a member of the Freemasons , which led to criticism from the opposition, as several people from the fishing industry are also members in his Masonic lodge . Prime Minister Erna Solberg advised him in February 2020 to leave the federal government in order to avoid a conflict of interests. Sivertsen himself described his membership as passive. He resigned from the Order of Freemasons at Solberg's statement.

On February 28, 2020, he finally announced that he would step down. He justified this by saying that the controversy over the bridging allowances was a burden on the government. The opposition party Sosialistisk Venstreparti (SV) had previously announced a motion of censure against him. In addition, the FrP, on whose votes the minority government depends, declared that they too no longer stand behind Sivertsen. He was removed from office on March 2, 2020 and Labor and Social Affairs Minister Torbjørn Røe Isaksen took over his office temporarily.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Endringar i regjeringa. NRK, March 2, 2020, accessed on March 2, 2020 (Norwegian Nynorsk).
  2. ↑ Geir-Inge Sivertsen. Høyre, accessed on January 23, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).
  3. ↑ David Vojislav Krekling: Her er Solberg-regjeringen 4.0. January 24, 2020, accessed January 24, 2020 (Norwegian).
  4. ↑ Arild Moe: Finance Minister Geir Inge Sivertsen fikk 120,000 i ordfører-etterlønn mens han var statssekretær. February 14, 2020, accessed on February 14, 2020 (nb-NO).
  5. ↑ Uakseptabelt and uforståelig av fiskeriministeren. February 14, 2020, accessed on February 14, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  6. ↑ Inghild Eriksen: Erna Solberg mener Geir Inge Sivertsen bør gå ut av Frimurerlosjen. NRK, February 25, 2020, accessed on February 26, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  7. ↑ Solberg has tillit til Sivertsen - mener han bør ut av Frimurerlosjen. Retrieved February 26, 2020 (Norwegian).
  8. ↑ Fiskeriministeren heldt seg ut av Frimurerlosjen. Aftenposten, February 26, 2020, accessed on February 28, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  9. ^ Frank Lande: Geir Inge Sivertsen går av som fiskeriminister. February 28, 2020, accessed on February 28, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).
  10. ↑ Astrid Randen: SV varslar mistillitsforslag mot tax minister Geir Inge Sivertsen. February 28, 2020, accessed on February 28, 2020 (Norwegian Nynorsk).
  11. ↑ Cato Husabø Fossen: Kilder til NRK: Frp varslet Høyre om at de ikke kunne lenger støtte Sivertsen. NRK, February 28, 2020, accessed on February 28, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).
  12. ↑ Anders Furuset: Isaksen midlertidig fiskeriminister. In: Fiskeribladet. March 2, 2020, accessed March 2, 2020 (Norwegian).
personal data
SURNAME Sivertsen, Geir Inge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sivertsen, Geir-Inge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1965