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unusual facts about Norwegian Parliament



2011 Nobel Peace Prize

The five members of the Nobel Committee are appointed by the Norwegian Parliament to roughly reflect the party makeup of that body.

Alta Hydroelectric Power Station

At the construction site itself at Stilla, a number of activists sat down and blocked the machines from starting their work; and at the same time, a number of Sami activists camped outside the Norwegian parliament, starting a hunger strike.

Arthur Sundt

He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Bergen in 1945, and was re-elected on one occasion in 1954.

BI Norwegian Business School

Past presidents include Jørgen Randers, co-author of the Club of Rome Report Limits to Growth; Peter Lorange, former president of IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland; Leif Frode Onarheim, a former member of the Norwegian Parliament and current CEO of leading Norwegian fish farming company Marine Harvest.


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Aamir J. Sheikh

Sheikh is married to Afshan Rafiq, who was Norway's first full member of the Norwegian Parliament Stortinget (for Høyre) from a minority background (Athar Ali and Shahbaz Tariq were both deputy representatives).

Johan Kleppe

During his time in cabinet he was replaced in the Norwegian Parliament by Kristian Halse.