Jette F. Christensen

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Jette F. Christensen, 2018

Jette Fugelsnes Christensen (born June 1, 1983 ) is a Norwegian politician of the social democratic party Arbeiderpartiet (Ap). She has been a member of the Storting since 2010 .

Life

Christensen studied political science at the University of Bergen . She ran for a seat in the Norwegian national parliament in Storting in the 2009 general election in Norway . She missed the move and became Vararepresentantin , so substitute MP. As such, from September 2010 she was deployed on behalf of Per Rune Henriksen , who had been appointed State Secretary. In the following election she finally moved directly into parliament for the constituency of Hordaland . Christensen was a member of the Control and Constitutional Committee from 2010 to 2017, after the 2017 election she moved to the Education and Research Committee. In January 2018 she became part of the Foreign and Defense Committee.

In January 2019, it became known that her partner Frithjof Jacobsen was quitting his work as a political commentator for the newspaper Verdens Gang (VG) in order to avoid a conflict of interest. In February 2020, she declared that she did not want to run again for a seat in parliament in the 2021 Storting election.

Positions

Christensen has been critical of the fact that Norway has a royal family . In January 2019 she was one of the co-initiators of a legislative proposal that would have turned Norway into a republic . The proposal was ultimately rejected by 36 votes to 130.

Web links

Commons : Jette F. Christensen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eivind Sæther: Dronningemnet. In: Dagens Næringsliv. October 3, 2014, accessed June 10, 2020 (Norwegian).
  2. ↑ Erik Waatland: - Jeg slutter i VG fordi jeg ønsker å establish et forhold til Jette Christensen. In: medier24.no. January 16, 2019, accessed June 10, 2020 (Norwegian).
  3. ^ Vilde Bratland Hansen, Stine Barstad: Ap-politician Jette Christensen stiller ikke til gjenvalg i 2021. Aftenposten, February 21, 2020, accessed on June 10, 2020 (Norwegian).
  4. ^ André Lorentsen: Kong Harald for continuation som konge. In: Dagsavisen. January 29, 2019, accessed June 10, 2020 (Norwegian).
personal data
SURNAME Christensen, Jette F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christensen, Jette Fugelsnes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1983