Kåre Kristiansen

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Kåre Kristiansen

Kåre Gulbrand Kristiansen (born March 11, 1920 in Bergen, December 3, 2005) is a Norwegian politician, president of the Christian People's Party, chairman of the Norwegian Parliament, minister.

He was the son of a secular preacher, active in the Salvation Army. He began his professional career as a Norge Statsbaner telegraph operator in Norwegian railways. Since 1951 he has been active in the community of Nesodden; In 1965 he was appointed to the position of Deputy Minister of Social Affairs and remained in office until 1968. In 1969 he was first elected to Parliament (Storting), initially as deputy deputy; Between 1973-1977 and 1981-1989 he held the mandate of the deputy. In 1975 he was first elected president of the Christian People's Party, replacing Lars Korvald; He headed the party until 1979, again in 1979-1983 (replaced in 1983 by Kjell Magne Bondevik). From 1981-1983 he was the chairman of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee, from 1983-1986 the minister of oil and energy industry in the coalition conservative cabinet Kåre Willoch. In 1986 he was elected president of the Parliament, his position held until 1989.

Kristiansen's personality has been a source of controversy in the Christian People's Party. He was a strong supporter of cooperation with the conservative party Høyre and, in the context of an intraparty conflict, he resigned from leadership. He was also well known for his support for Norway's accession to the European Union and as a sympathizer to Israel; nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Elie Wiesel and founded the Parliamentary Circle of Friends of Israel. After the expiry of the parliamentary mandate in 1989, he withdrew from his current policy, but remained active in the Nesodden self-government. He was also a former parliamentarian who was appointed in 1990 to the Nobel Committee, from which he gave a demonstrative resignation in 1994 as a protest against the award of the peace prize to Jasper Arafat. Authoritative control (person):

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