AskBiography Logo   Latest News  Follow Us on Twitter  Follow Us on Google Buzz  Became Fan - Facebook  Subscribe to RSSRSS   Bookmark and Share

Prime Minister of Norway

Prime Minister of Norway
PostPrime Minister
BodyNorway
InsigniaCoat of Arms of Norway.svg
Insigniasize94px
InsigniacaptionCoat of Arms of Norway
Imagesize150px
IncumbentJens Stoltenberg
Incumbentsince17 October 2005
ResidenceInkognitogata 18
AppointerHarald V
as sovereign
TermlengthGeneral Elections are held every four years. The Prime Minister is by convention the leader of the victorious party. No term limits are imposed on the office.
Formation1873
InauguralFrederik Stang (generally regarded as the first incumbent)

     Home | Political post | Prime Minister of Norway





:This is a descriptive article. For a list, see List of heads of government of Norway.

The Prime Minister of Norway (statsminister) is the political leader of Norway and the Head of His Majesty's Government. The Prime Minister and Cabinet (consisting of all the most senior government department heads) are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Sovereign, to Stortinget (Parliament), to their political party, and ultimately the electorate.

Norway has a constitution, which was adopted on 17 May 1814. The position of Prime Minister is the result of legislation. Modern Prime Ministers have few statutory powers but, provided they can command the support of their parliamentary party, they can control both the legislature and the executive (the Cabinet) and hence wield considerable de facto powers. As of 2009, the Prime Minister of Norway is Jens Stoltenberg, of the Norwegian Labour Party.


Warning: simplexml_load_file(http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/-/Prime/Minister/of/Norway?orderby=viewCount&max-results=10) [function.simplexml-load-file]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 410 Gone in /home/askbio/public_html/index_bio.php on line 257

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: I/O warning : failed to load external entity "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/-/Prime/Minister/of/Norway?orderby=viewCount&max-results=10" in /home/askbio/public_html/index_bio.php on line 257

Fatal error: Call to a member function children() on a non-object in /home/askbio/public_html/index_bio.php on line 260