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Jens Stoltenberg

Personal data
Date of birth16 March 1959(age 57)
Place of birthOslo, Norway
Political partyLabour Party
SpouseIngrid Schulerud
Alma materUniversity of Oslo
ProfessionEconomist
ReligionNone (atheist)
Prime Minister of Norway
Assumed office17 October 2005
MonarchHarald V
Preceded byKjell Magne Bondevik
In office3 March 2000 - 19 October 2001
MonarchHarald V
Succeeded byKjell Magne Bondevik
Preceded byKjell Magne Bondevik
Leader of the Labour Party
Assumed office2002
Preceded byThorbjørn Jagland
Minister of Finance
In office25 October 1996 - 17 October 1997
Prime ministerThorbjørn Jagland
Succeeded byGudmund Restad
Preceded bySigbjørn Johnsen

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(born 16 March 1959) is a Norwegian politician, leader of the Norwegian Labour Party and the current Prime Minister of Norway. Having assumed office on 17 October 2005, Stoltenberg previously served as Prime Minister from 2000 to 2001.

Having first been elected to Parliament in 1993 for the Oslo constituency, Stoltenberg served as

State Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment from 1990 to 1991 and as Minister of Industry from 1993 to 1996 in the Third Brundtland Cabinet, respectively. Following the resignation of Brundtland in 1996, Thorbjørn Jagland was elected leader of the Labour Party and became Prime Minister, while Stoltenberg was appointed Minister of Finance, an office he held until 17 October 1997 when Jagland and the entire government resigned. While in parliamentary opposition, Stoltenberg served in the standing committees on energy affairs. Following a motion of confidence against the First Bondevik Cabinet , Stoltenberg was appointed Prime Minister on 3 March 2000, despite being deputy leader of the party, and not the party leader.

After poor results in the 2001 parliamentary election, and the subsequent fall of his government on 19 October of that same year, Stoltenberg successfully challenged Thorbjørn Jagland for the party leadership in 2002, and led the party to victory in the 2005 election by forming a Red-Green coalition government with the Centre Party (Sp) and the Socialist Left Party (SV). He was re-elected in 2009 for another term as Prime Minister of Norway.


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