Siv Jensen

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Siv Jensen

Siv Jensen (born June 1, 1969 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian politician . She has been chairwoman of the right-wing populist Progress Party (FrP) since May 6, 2006 and a member of the Storting since 1997 . From October 2013 to January 2020 she was Finance Minister in the Solberg government .

Origin and education

Siv Jensen attended the Oslo Commercial High School and graduated from the Norwegian Commercial College in 1992 with a degree in economics .

Political career

Jensen was a city councilor in Oslo from 1995 to 1999. She moved into the Norwegian parliament, the Storting, for the first time in the 1997 general election for the city of Oslo. From 2001 to 2005 she was the chairman of the finance committee and also the deputy chairwoman of the parliamentary group. From 2005 to 2013 she was the leader of her parliamentary group.

From 1999 to 2006 she was the first deputy chairwoman of the FrP. After taking over the chairmanship of Carl I. Hagen in 2006, she tried to lead her party away from the image of a protest party and more towards the middle class in order to make government participation after the 2009 parliamentary election more realistic. In the 2009 election, when Jensen entered the running as the top candidate of her party, the FrP achieved its best result since its foundation with 22.9%, but it could not participate in the government because the left parties retained the majority.

Although her party achieved a weaker result with 16.3% of the vote in the following parliamentary elections in 2013 , the FrP has now managed to become part of the government. Jensen was subsequently appointed Finance Minister in the government under Minister of State Erna Solberg on October 16, 2013 . She kept this post after the 2017 election . In October 2019, she became the longest-serving finance minister since the end of World War II.

Siv Jensen announced her party's withdrawal from the Solberg government on January 20, 2020. The reason she gave was the return of a Norwegian-Pakistani supporter of the so-called Islamic State (IS) from a camp in northern Syria to Norway. The woman had appeared in the organization's propaganda videos several times. The FrP had previously agreed to the return of the woman's two children, but refused the mother's. In turn, she refused to let her children travel to Norway unless she was brought back as well. The woman herself claims that she did not participate in IS voluntarily, but that she was forced. Prime Minister Erna Solberg made an exception for humanitarian reasons and the woman was allowed to return to Norway with her children. On January 24, 2020, the new cabinet of the Solberg government was presented, with Høyre politician Jan Tore Sanner replacing it as the new finance minister. Jensen thus returned to Storting as a member of parliament, where she was elected as the new group leader.

Private

Jensen is the great-granddaughter of women's rights activist Betzy Kjelsberg . Her sister Nina Jensen is a marine biologist and was Secretary General of WWF in Norway.

Web links

Commons : Siv Jensen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Biographies: Jensen, Siv. March 9, 2008, accessed June 29, 2019 (Norwegian).
  2. ↑ Hannes Gamillscheg: Election in Norway: Harder than the rest: Siv Jensen. September 10, 2013, accessed on February 18, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ NRK valgresultat 2013 - Landsoversikt. Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
  4. ^ "Her om dagen ble Siv Jensen historisk". Retrieved October 21, 2019 (Norwegian).
  5. ↑ a b "Dispute over IS supporters - government breaks up" Tagesschau.de from January 20, 2020
  6. ↑ Afshin Ismaeli, Tor Arne Andreassen: Norge Henter syk goood hjem fra Syria. Moren for bli med. In: Aftenposten. January 14, 2020, accessed on January 20, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  7. ↑ David Vojislav Krekling: Her er Solberg-regjeringen 4.0. January 24, 2020, accessed on January 24, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  8. ↑ Fredrik Kampevoll: "Nye Frp": Fornøyd Listhaug clear for å forhandle. January 27, 2020, accessed on January 28, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
personal data
SURNAME Jensen, Siv
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian politician, member of the Storting
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo