Robert Eriksson

Robert Eriksson, 2014

Robert Eriksson (born April 23, 1974 in Levanger ) is a Norwegian politician of the Progressive Party (FrP). From October 2013 to December 2015 he was Norway's Minister of Labor and Social Affairs .

education and profession

Eriksson graduated in 1995 with a degree in business administration . From 2001 to 2005 he was the managing director of a branch of an insurance company in Levanger. In 2016 he started working as a consultant for the PR company MSLGROUP . In 2017 he became managing director of Norske Sjømatbedrifters Landsforening , a trade association of Norwegian fishing companies.

Political career

Between 1991 and 1994 Eriksson was chairman of the youth organization Fremskrittspartiets Ungdom (FpU) in what was then the province of North Trøndelag . From 2002 to 2008 he was chairman of his party in Nord-Trøndelag. In the years between 1998 and 2000 and between 2002 and 2008 he was a member of the national party committee Landsstyret as a representative of his province . From 2013 to 2017 he was a member of the party executive committee of the FrP.

Eriksson sat on the Verdal council from 1991 to 2011 . Between 1995 and 2005 he was also a member of the Fylkesting of Nord-Trøndelag, from 1997 he was the parliamentary group leader of his party. In 2005 he moved into the Norwegian parliament, the Storting , for the first time . From 2009 to 2013 he was chairman of the labor and social committee. In the 2013 parliamentary elections , he did not succeed in moving into parliament again. In 2016, he announced that he would not run in the 2017 elections.

In October 2013 he was appointed Minister of Labor and Social Affairs in the Solberg government. In December he was removed from this office because the post should fall to a politician of the conservative Høyre party in the course of a government reshuffle .

Web links

Commons : Robert Eriksson  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Storting biography (Norwegian)
• Robert Eriksson in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Eriksson går til PR-bransjen. July 3, 2016, Retrieved April 28, 2019 (Norwegian). 
2. ^ NTB, Sivert Rossing: Eriksson har fått ny jobb. May 22, 2017. Retrieved April 28, 2019 (Norwegian). 
3. ↑ Valgte nytt sentralstyre. Fremskrittspartiet, May 7, 2017, accessed April 28, 2019 (Norwegian). 
4. ^ NTB: Robert Eriksson vil ikke på Stortinget. June 29, 2016, Retrieved April 28, 2019 (Norwegian). 
5. ↑ Erlend Kjernli: Skuffet Eriksson mister drømmejobben. December 16, 2015, accessed April 28, 2019 (Norwegian).