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Lan Marie Nguyen Berg (2014)

Lan Marie Nguyen Berg (born March 4, 1987 ) is a Norwegian politician from Miljøpartiet De Grønne (MDG). Since 2015 she has been responsible for the environment and transport in the city government of Oslo .

Family and education

Berg grew up in Oppegård , just outside Oslo. Her mother is the Norwegian Mari Ann Berg, who is a member of the Sosialistisk Venstreparti (SV), her father Khanh Thanh Nguyen came to Norway from Vietnam in 1968 to receive medical treatment as a war refugee. She has been married to MDG politician Eivind Trædal since July 2018 . They have a daughter together who was born in April 2019.

Berg studied development studies and holds a master's degree from the University of Oslo . She wrote her master's thesis on the use of solar energy in a Kenyan village. After completing her studies, she worked as a research assistant at the Cicero Center for Climate Research. In 2011 she stayed in Tuvalu for half a year , where she wrote a blog about the effects of climate change with the help of a scholarship.

Political career

In 2014 Lan Marie Nguyen Berg joined the green party MDG. In the same year she agreed to take one of the top ten places on her party's electoral list for the 2015 local elections in Oslo. Although she was still relatively unknown, she got number one on the list. After the election, in which the MDG received 8.1 percent of the vote, the party joined the Oslo city ​​government ( Byråd ) and Berg became responsible for the environment and transport. One of the goals of Lan Marie Nguyen Berg was to convert the city center into a car-free zone. A large part of the work, however, was initially the solution of the garbage problem that arose in the city after the garbage disposal company Veireno, which had been commissioned before her term of office, no longer performed its task.

In January 2017, her move to temporarily ban diesel car journeys in Oslo caused an international stir. Berg justified her approach by stating that children, the elderly and people with respiratory problems could not be expected to have to stay at home because the air was too dangerous to breathe.

In the local elections in September 2019, she was again the top candidate and she again entered the Oslo parliament. She received the highest number of votes of all the politicians who stood in Oslo. Subsequently, in October 2019, it was announced that she would continue to hold her post as responsible for the environment and transport and that she is now also Deputy Chairwoman of the government.

On February 23, 2020, she was installed as the party's deputy party leader. A party congress at the end of April 2020 should have confirmed her in this position, but she withdrew her candidacy shortly before the party congress.

criticism

At the end of August 2019, media reported that there were around 500 cases of disregard for labor law in authorities subordinated to the mountain. On September 24, 2019, the Control Committee of the Oslo Parliament therefore decided that Lan Marie Nguyen Berg should be investigated. In October 2019 it became known that a total of over 15,000 breaches of labor law had been committed in the mountain.

At the end of January 2020, the Control Committee of the Oslo Parliament presented the report on the investigations, which examined the situation from January 2018 to September 2019. There Berg and the Arbeiderpartiet politician Tone Tellevik Dahl were accused of not having obtained sufficient information about compliance with labor law in their authorities. According to the report, there were documents on the breaches of law in the Oslo Department of the Environment, which Lan Marie Nguyen Berg said he knew nothing about. However, it is part of a Byråd's remit to carry out internal controls. Investigations by the Norwegian broadcaster Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK) came to the conclusion in December 2019 that Berg already knew of at least 730 legal violations in February 2019. On March 18, 2020, the Arbeidstilsynet Labor Inspectorate announced that it would no longer investigate the case.

Web links

Commons : Lan Marie Nguyen Berg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  3. Lan Marie Nguyen Berg: Sunshine in Ikisaya: exploring a research-introduced social enterprise and its potential to provide basic electricity services and to reduce vulnerability in a Kenyan village . 2013 ( uio.no [accessed October 19, 2019]).
  4. Lan Marie Berg (MDG): - Noen ganger er det nødvendig å bli sint. September 23, 2018, accessed October 19, 2019 (Norwegian).
  5. Petter Løken: Tsunami hits nå. March 11, 2011, Retrieved October 19, 2019 (Norwegian).
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  8. FOCUS Online: Driving ban in Norway: Oslo forbids the use of diesel vehicles. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
  9. MDGs Lan Marie Berg fikk klart flest personstemmer i Oslo-valget. Retrieved October 19, 2019 (Norwegian).
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  11. ^ Robert Gjerde: Hun blir MDGs første partileder: - Four clear for å gå i regjering. Aftenposten, February 23, 2020, accessed on February 24, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
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  13. Øyvind Gustavsen: Ny søppelskandale i Oslo: Over 500 brudd på arbeidsmiljøloven. August 29, 2019, accessed on October 19, 2019 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  14. Øyvind Gustavsen: Kontrollutvalget vil ha egen gransking av Lan Marie Berg. September 24, 2019, accessed on October 19, 2019 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  15. Henning Carr Ekroll, Wasim Riaz: NRK: Over 5000 lovbrudd i Vann- og avløpsetaten i Oslo. Retrieved October 19, 2019 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  16. Vegard Venli: Report om Oslo-byråder: Fanget ikke opp tusenvis av brudd på arbeidsmiljøloven. January 28, 2020, accessed on January 28, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  17. Øyvind Gustavsen: Berg ble varslet om 730 lovbrudd - hevdet likevel hun ikke hadde oversikt. December 17, 2019, accessed on January 28, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).
  18. Stian Fyen: "Frikjent" av Arbeidstilsynet. In: Dagsavisen. March 18, 2020, accessed March 18, 2020 (Norwegian).