Government of Solberg

Government of Solberg
Prime Minister	Erna Solberg
Appointed by	King Harald V.
education	October 16, 2013
Duration	6 years and 321 days
predecessor	Government of Stoltenberg II
composition
Party (s)	Høyre , Fremskrittspartiet (until January 2020) ; Venstre (from January 2018) ; Kristelig Folkeparti (from January 2019)
minister	19th
representation
Storting (2013)	77/169
Storting (2018)	80/169
Storting (2019)	88/169
Storting (2020)	61/169

The Solberg government has formed the government of the Kingdom of Norway since October 16, 2013 and is led by Prime Minister Erna Solberg ( Høyre , Conservative). It emerged from the general election in Norway in 2013 . At first it was a minority government of the conservative Høyre and the right-wing Fremskrittspartiet (FrP), later the socially liberal Venstre and the Christian-democratic Kristelig Folkeparti (KrF) also joined. On January 20, 2020, the leader of the FrP, Siv Jensen , announced that her party would leave the government. On January 24, 2020, the new government was presented without FrP ministers.

history

The Solberg government emerged from the 2013 general election in Norway . The bourgeois-conservative bloc gained a majority in parliament, the Storting . Erna Solberg formed a minority government with her party, the conservative Høyre, and the FrP. The Conservatives initially occupied eleven ministerial posts, the FrP seven. Half of the government team was female. The coalition relied on the support of either the KrF or the Venstre party until the 2017 election .

On December 16, 2015, the cabinet was reorganized. Four new ministers were admitted to the government and three were dismissed from office; the FrP thus gained a ministerial post. At the same time, some responsibilities were reallocated. Immigration and integration were upgraded to a separate department. On October 20, 2017, Børge Brende left the cabinet table and became President of the World Economic Forum in Geneva. Solberg made a minor castling.

Entry of the Venstre party

In the parliamentary elections in September 2017, the bourgeois parties lost seats in parliament. They continued to receive the majority of the mandates, but now both Venstre and the KrF must approve in order to be able to pass a law. The Venstre party began under the chairman Trine Skei Grande to conduct coalition negotiations with the previous government. Your party joined the new minority government on January 17, 2018, with three parties now involved and received three ministerial posts.

Entry of the Kristelig Folkeparti

Since the members of the KrF did not agree on whether they should continue to support the bourgeois minority government, their then party chairman Knut Arild Hareide called an internal party vote in which the future course should be clarified. He himself spoke out in favor of a government under the social democrat Jonas Gahr Støre . In November 2018, however, the members of the party congress voted against this change of course and instead for joining the Solberg government. Accordingly, the KrF joined the government in January 2019 after coalition negotiations under the leadership of its new chairman Kjell Ingolf Ropstad . This government now had the majority in Storting and was no longer dependent on the support of other parties.

Exit of the Fremskrittspartiet

After an internal dispute about government work in the FrP in January 2020, Siv Jensen , the chairwoman of the FrP, announced on January 20, 2020 that she would leave the government. Jensen said her party would continue to support Erna Solberg as prime minister. The cause of the internal party dispute between the FrP was that the government decided to bring a Norwegian- Pakistani woman close to the so-called Islamic State (IS) and her two children, one of whom was sick, from Syria to Norway. This step was particularly criticized by the FrP base. The remaining governing parties agreed to form a new government team by the end of the month. For the period up to the formation of the new government, the responsibility of the FP ministers was limited to administrative tasks.

The new cabinet was finally presented on January 24, 2020. The conservative Høyre received twelve ministers, KrF and Venstre four each. In addition to the FrP ministers, Climate and Environment Minister Ola Elvestuen (Venstre) and Labor and Social Affairs Minister Anniken Hauglie (Høyre), who was criticized for the NAV scandal, were replaced.

Two ministerial posts were filled on March 13, 2020. The office of Minister of Fisheries became vacant after Geir Inge Sivertsen announced his resignation. He was previously criticized for having received double wages through transitional payments. The Venstre politician Trine Skei Grande had also resigned from her ministerial post. At the same time, she announced that she would not run again for party chairmanship after there had been long internal disputes.

In a vote on May 26, 2020, a coalition of the former ruling party FrP with the left-wing opposition parties Arbeiderpartiet (Ap) and Sosialistisk Venstreparti (SV) as well as some other MPs voted for the liberalization of the Biotechnology Act, which among other things legalized egg donation for single women includes. The government was thus outvoted on one point, which was seen as a defeat, especially for the Christian Democratic force.

Government members

Government of Solberg (January 2018)

Current ministerial posts

Department	Surname	Political party	Taking office	End of office
Prime Minister	Erna Solberg	Høyre	October 16, 2013
Finances	Siv Jensen	Fremskrittspartiet	October 16, 2013	January 24, 2020
Finances	Jan Tore Sanner	Høyre	January 24, 2020
Exterior	Børge Brende	Høyre	October 16, 2013	20th October 2017
Exterior	Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide	Høyre	20th October 2017
defense	Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide	Høyre	October 16, 2013	20th October 2017
defense	Frank Bakke-Jensen	Høyre	20th October 2017
Justice and readiness	Anundsen is different	Fremskrittspartiet	October 16, 2013	20th December 2016
	Per-Willy Amundsen	Fremskrittspartiet	20th December 2016	17th January 2018
	Sylvi Listhaug	Fremskrittspartiet	17th January 2018	20th March 2018
	Gate Mikkel Wara	Fremskrittspartiet	4th April 2018	29th March 2019
	Jøran Kallmyr	Fremskrittspartiet	29th March 2019	January 24, 2020
	Monica Mæland	Høyre	January 24, 2020
Economy (in the Ministry of Economy and Fisheries )	Monica Mæland	Høyre	October 16, 2013	17th January 2018
	Torbjørn Røe Isaksen	Høyre	17th January 2018	January 24, 2020
	Iselin Nybø	Venstre	January 24, 2020
Work and social	Robert Eriksson	Fremskrittspartiet	October 16, 2013	December 16, 2015
	Anniken Hauglie	Høyre	December 16, 2015	January 24, 2020
	Torbjørn Røe Isaksen	Høyre	January 24, 2020
Health and welfare	Bent Høie	Høyre	October 16, 2013
Oil and energy	Tord Lien	Fremskrittspartiet	October 13, 2013	20th December 2016
	Terje Søviknes	Fremskrittspartiet	20th December 2016	August 31, 2018
	Kjell-Børge Freiberg	Fremskrittspartiet	August 31, 2018	18th December 2019
	Sylvi Listhaug	Fremskrittspartiet	18th December 2019	January 24, 2020
	Tina Bru	Høyre	January 24, 2020
Climate and environment (until 2014: environmental protection)	Tine Sundtoft	Høyre	October 16, 2013	December 16, 2015
	Vidar Helgesen	Høyre	December 16, 2015	17th January 2018
	Ola Elvestuen	Venstre	17th January 2018	January 24, 2020
	Sveinung Rotevatn	Venstre	January 24, 2020
traffic	Ketil Solvik-Olsen	Fremskrittspartiet	October 16, 2013	August 31, 2018
	Jon Georg Dale	Fremskrittspartiet	August 31, 2018	January 24, 2020
	Knut Arild Hareide	Kristelig Folkeparti	January 24, 2020
Agriculture and Food	Sylvi Listhaug	Fremskrittspartiet	October 16, 2013	December 16, 2015
	Jon Georg Dale	Fremskrittspartiet	December 26, 2015	August 31, 2018
	Bård Hoksrud	Fremskrittspartiet	August 31, 2018	22nd January 2019
	Olaug Bollestad	Kristelig Folkeparti	22nd January 2019
Education (since January 2018: Education and Integration)	Torbjørn Røe Isaksen	Høyre	October 16, 2013	17th January 2018
	Jan Tore Sanner	Høyre	17th January 2018	January 24, 2020
	Trine Skei Grande	Venstre	January 24, 2020	March 13, 2020
	Guri Melby	Venstre	March 13, 2020
Children, equality and inclusion (since January 2019: children and families)	Solveig Horne	Fremskrittspartiet	October 16, 2013	17th January 2018
	Linda Hofstad Helleland	Høyre	17th January 2018	22nd January 2019
	Kjell Ingolf Ropstad	Kristelig Folkeparti	22nd January 2019
Culture (since January 2019: culture and equality)	Thorhild Widvey	Høyre	October 16, 2013	December 16, 2015
	Linda Hofstad Helleland	Høyre	December 16, 2015	17th January 2018
	Trine Skei Grande	Venstre	17th January 2018	January 24, 2020
	Abid Raja	Venstre	January 24, 2020
Municipalities and modernization	Jan Tore Sanner	Høyre	October 16, 2013	17th January 2018
	Monica Mæland	Høyre	17th January 2018	January 24, 2020
	Nikolai Astrup	Høyre	January 24, 2020
Fisheries (in the Ministry of Economy and Fisheries )	Elisabeth Aspaker	Høyre	October 16, 2013	December 16, 2015
	Per Sandberg	Fremskrittspartiet	December 16, 2015	13th August 2018
	Harald Tom Nesvik	Fremskrittspartiet	13th August 2018	January 24, 2020
	Geir Inge Sivertsen	Høyre	January 24, 2020	March 2nd 2020
	Torbjørn Røe Isaksen (acting)	Høyre	March 2nd 2020	March 13, 2020
	Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen	Høyre	March 13, 2020
Development (in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs )	Nikolai Astrup	Høyre	17th January 2018	22nd January 2019
Development (in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs )	Dag Inge Ulstein	Kristelig Folkeparti	22nd January 2019
Research and higher education (in the Ministry of Education, from 2018)	Iselin Nybø	Venstre	17th January 2018	January 24, 2020
	Henrik Asheim	Høyre	January 24, 2020
Districts and digitization (in the Ministry of Municipalities and Modernization, from 2019; digitization by 2020)	Nikolai Astrup	Høyre	22nd January 2019	January 24, 2020
	Linda Hofstad Helleland	Høyre	January 24, 2020

Former ministerial posts

Four ministerial posts, each located in a ministry with two ministerial posts, were created and abolished again in the course of the government.

Department	Surname	Political party	Taking office	End of office
EEA and EU (in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; December 2015 - January 2018)	Elisabeth Aspaker	Høyre	December 16, 2015	20th December 2016
	Frank Bakke-Jensen	Høyre	20th December 2016	20th October 2017
	Marit Berger Røsland	Høyre	20th October 2017	17th January 2018
Immigration and Integration (in the Ministry of Justice; December 2015 - January 2018)	Sylvi Listhaug	Fremskrittspartiet	December 16, 2015	17th January 2018
Seniors and Public Health (at the Ministry of Health; January 2018 - January 2020)	Åse Michaelsen	Fremskrittspartiet	17th January 2018	3rd May 2019
	Sylvi Listhaug	Fremskrittspartiet	3rd May 2019	18th December 2019
	Terje Søviknes	Fremskrittspartiet	18th December 2019	January 24, 2020
public security (at the Ministry of Justice; January 2019 - January 2020)	Ingvil Smines Tybring-Gjedde	Fremskrittspartiet	22nd January 2019	January 24, 2020

Web links

Regjeringen.no Official website of the Norwegian government
These 18 will rule Norway (norw.) Aftenposten.no, October 16, 2013

Individual evidence

↑ Her he den nye regjeringen Aftenposten, December 16, 2015.
↑ Endringer i regjeringen State Chancellery, December 16, 2015.
↑ Fire måtte ut, fem fikk nytt department. Dagsavisen, January 17, 2018, accessed May 12, 2019 (Norwegian).
↑ Det var så silence at you can hear in partileder case. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .
↑ tagesschau.de: Norway gets its first majority government in a long time. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .
↑ David Vojislav Krekling: Frp går ut av regjering. January 20, 2020, accessed on January 20, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).
↑ Afshin Ismaeli Tor Arne, reassen: Norge Henter syk goood hjem fra Syria. Moren for bli med. Retrieved January 20, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).
↑ Reinhard Wolff: Norway threatens the end of the coalition: Crisis because of an IS returning woman . In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 19, 2020, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed January 20, 2020]).
↑ Solberg vil løse regjeringskabalen inside slutten av måneden. Retrieved January 21, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).
↑ NRK: Frps myndighet statsråder fratatt. January 21, 2020, accessed on January 21, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
↑ David Vojislav Krekling: Går mot 13 endringer i regjeringen - dette skjer i dag. In: NRK. January 24, 2020, accessed on January 24, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
↑ Fredrik Kampevoll: Guri Melby (V) ny kunnskaps- og integreringsminister og Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen ny finance minister. In: NRK. March 13, 2020, accessed on March 13, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
↑ Håvard Grønli: Historisk endring: Tillet assistert instruction for inserting kvinner and eggdonasjon. In: NRK. May 26, 2020, accessed on May 26, 2020 (Norwegian Nynorsk).

[1] Her he den nye regjeringen Aftenposten, December 16, 2015.

[2] Endringer i regjeringen State Chancellery, December 16, 2015.

[3] Fire måtte ut, fem fikk nytt department. Dagsavisen, January 17, 2018, accessed May 12, 2019 (Norwegian).

[4] Det var så silence at you can hear in partileder case. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .

[5] tagesschau.de: Norway gets its first majority government in a long time. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .

[6] David Vojislav Krekling: Frp går ut av regjering. January 20, 2020, accessed on January 20, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).

[7] Afshin Ismaeli Tor Arne, reassen: Norge Henter syk goood hjem fra Syria. Moren for bli med. Retrieved January 20, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).

[8] Reinhard Wolff: Norway threatens the end of the coalition: Crisis because of an IS returning woman . In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 19, 2020, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed January 20, 2020]).

[9] Solberg vil løse regjeringskabalen inside slutten av måneden. Retrieved January 21, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).

[10] NRK: Frps myndighet statsråder fratatt. January 21, 2020, accessed on January 21, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).

[11] David Vojislav Krekling: Går mot 13 endringer i regjeringen - dette skjer i dag. In: NRK. January 24, 2020, accessed on January 24, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).

[12] Fredrik Kampevoll: Guri Melby (V) ny kunnskaps- og integreringsminister og Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen ny finance minister. In: NRK. March 13, 2020, accessed on March 13, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).

[13] Håvard Grønli: Historisk endring: Tillet assistert instruction for inserting kvinner and eggdonasjon. In: NRK. May 26, 2020, accessed on May 26, 2020 (Norwegian Nynorsk).