Harald Tom Nesvik

Harald Tom Nesvik

Harald Tom Nesvik (born May 4, 1966 in Ålesund ) is a Norwegian politician of the Fremskrittspartiet (FrP). From August 2018 to January 2020 he was Minister of Fisheries in the Solberg government .

Political career

Harald Tom Nesvik was a member of Ålesund City Council from 1987 to 2009. In 1997 he moved into the Norwegian parliament, the Storting , for the first time and was there until 2017 as a representative of the province of Møre og Romsdal . From 2001 to 2005 and 2011 to 2017 he was a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee, from 2013 as group chairman. In the 2017 general election , Nesvik did not run again.

In June 2017 it was announced that he would take over the office of Fylkesmann in Møre og Romsdal from January 2019 . In May 2018, however, he announced that he did not want to take over this office. He justified this by saying that he did not want his family to commute from their home in Ålesund to Molde . In August 2018 he was appointed Minister of Fisheries. When the FrP left the government , he resigned from this office on January 24, 2020.

In 2002 he attracted attention when he testified that he had nominated George W. Bush and Tony Blair for the Nobel Peace Prize for their fight against terrorism after the 9/11 attacks .

Web links

• Storting biography (Norwegian)
• Government Biography (Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klokken 15:50 10.10.2016: Harald Nesvik gir seg på Stortinget. Retrieved June 5, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Siril Marie Borgersen: Nesvik blir ikke fylkesmann. May 30, 2018, accessed June 5, 2019 (nb-NO). 
3. ↑ Hilde Bjørhovde Journalist: Ny minister gleder seg til casual work. August 13, 2018, accessed June 5, 2019 (Norwegian Bokmål). 
4. ↑ Stuart Millar: Shoulder to shoulder, Blair and Bush nominated for peace prize . In: The Guardian . February 5, 2002, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed June 5, 2019]).