Per Sandberg

Per Sandberg (2009)

Per Sandberg (born February 6, 1960 in Levanger ) is a Norwegian politician of the Fremskrittspartiet (FrP). From December 2015 to August 2018 he was the Minister for Fisheries in his country.

Life

Sandberg completed his professional training in the process industry in 1988 . From 1982 to 1997 he worked as a process operator at the paper manufacturer Norske Skog . Before that he worked as a bartender and in 1986 in the UN service in Lebanon . From 1989 to 1999 and again from 2003 to 2005 he was a member of the Levanger municipal parliament. Between 1995 and 1997 he was also a member of the Fylkesting of Nord-Trøndelag .

In January 1997, Sandberg was sentenced to pay NOK 3,000  for knocking down an asylum seeker at a private party in his Levanger home on February 2, 1995.

Storting MP

Sandberg moved into the Norwegian parliament in Storting for the first time in the 1997 general election . There he represented the then North Trøndelag province until 2005. In the following three elections he moved into parliament for Sør-Trøndelag . From October 2005 to September 2013 he was the deputy group chairman. Between October 2005 and March 2009 he chaired the Transport and Communications Committee, and between October 2009 and September 2013 the Justice Committee. In May 2006 he was elected as the new deputy party chairman.

Minister of Fisheries

When the FrP joined the Solberg government, which was formed in October 2013, he did not want to take on a ministerial office. Before that he was part of the FrP delegation that took part in the government negotiations. He also stated that he would retire as deputy party chairman in 2014, which he ultimately did not do and was re-elected. In November 2013 he published the book Mot min vilje (German: Against my will ).

On December 16, 2015, he took over the office of Minister of Fisheries in the Ministry of Economics and Fisheries in the Solberg government . In December 2016, he announced that he would not run again in the parliamentary elections in September 2017 . At that time he was not exercising his mandate as a member of the government. He remained Minister for Fisheries even after the government reshuffle that followed parliamentary elections in January 2018. Before that, he was a member of the FrP delegation negotiating the Venstre Party's entry into the Solberg government. From March 5 to July 2, 2017 and again from March 20, 2018 to April 4, 2018, he temporarily took over the post of Minister of Justice.

resignation

On August 13, 2018, he resigned from his position as Minister of Fisheries after ignoring security regulations for members of the government during a visit to Iran. Specifically, it was about the use of a private, non-tap-proof mobile phone. There was also the suspicion that as a minister he had given his partner, Iranian-born Bahareh Letnes, business advantages. He also resigned from the deputy party chairmanship on August 13, 2018.

In October 2018, Per Sandberg and Bahareh Letnes published the joint book “Fremmede makter har flyttet inn. Justismord og politisk drap ”, in large parts a description of Sandberg's fall and a political defense.

In February 2020, he reported that he had not found a new job since retiring and that he wanted to open a bar in Halden with his partner Bahareh Letnes . He worked on the Norwegian reality series Farms , which was filmed for TV 2 from May 2019 .

Positions

As a party spokesman for infrastructure, he advocated the extensive expansion of the road network with income from the oil business. He firmly rejects the financing of the transport infrastructure through tolls .

Per Sandberg is one of the critics of Norwegian immigration policy. In his opinion, the authorities let too many people immigrate from outside the Schengen area . 70 to 75 percent of asylum applications in Norway would be "unfounded". He suggested that asylum seekers be monitored electronically so that their whereabouts could be continuously determined.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Antirasistisk Senter, the 1997 annual report, not available online.
2. ^ Sandberg Trecker seg som Frp-nestleder , aftenposten.no, October 28, 2013, accessed on October 29, 2013
3. ↑ David Vojislav Krekling: Sandberg var nær ved å ta eget liv. In: NRK. November 11, 2013, accessed on March 10, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål). 
4. ↑ Rise Simen Granviken: Sandberg sier nei til gjenvalg til Stortinget. In: Aftenposten. June 3, 2016, accessed on March 10, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål). 
5. ↑ FAS, August 19, 2018, p. 24.
6. ↑ Holiday with ex-beauty queen costs Norway minister his job. BBC News, August 13, 2018, accessed August 15, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Juritzen forlag: publisher's advertisement ( Norwegian ) In: Haugenbok . Retrieved November 3, 2018.
8. ↑ Birgitte Iversen: Sandberg håper bok vil renvaske kjæresten ( Norwegian ) In: dagsavisen . October 29, 2018. Retrieved November 3, 2018.
9. ↑ Åpner bar i Halden. In: TV February 2, 16, 2020, accessed on March 10, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål). 
10. ^ Line house, Karima Elisabeth Magnussen, Marit Grøtte, Espen Eide: Dette er årets farms kjendis-deltakere. In: TV 2. Accessed March 10, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål). 
11. ↑ http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2002/11/29/355081.html
12. ↑ http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=78144

Web links

Commons : Per Sandberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Per Sandberg at the Storting (Norwegian)
• Per Sandberg in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)