Per Sandberg | |
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Minister of Fisheries | |
In office 16 December 2015 – 13 August 2018 | |
Prime Minister | Erna Solberg |
Preceded by | Elisabeth Aspaker |
Succeeded by | Harald T. Nesvik |
Minister of Justice, Public Security and Immigration Acting[1] | |
In office 20 March 2018 – 4 April 2018 | |
Prime Minister | Erna Solberg |
Preceded by | Sylvi Listhaug |
Succeeded by | Tor Mikkel Wara |
First Deputy Leader of the Progress Party | |
In office 6 May 2006 – 13 August 2018 | |
Leader | Siv Jensen |
Preceded by | Siv Jensen |
Succeeded by | Sylvi Listhaug |
Minister of Migration and Integration Acting | |
In office 5 March 2017 – 2 July 2017 | |
Prime Minister | Erna Solberg |
Preceded by | Sylvi Listhaug |
Succeeded by | Sylvi Listhaug |
Member of the Norwegian Parliament | |
In office 1 October 2005 – 30 September 2017 | |
Constituency | Sør-Trøndelag |
In office 1 October 1997 – 30 September 2005 | |
Constituency | Nord-Trøndelag |
Personal details | |
Born | Levanger, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway | 6 February 1960
Political party | Capitalist Progress (formerly) |
Spouse | Line Miriam Haugan (Separated) |
Children | 3 |
Per Sandberg (born 6 February 1960) is a Norwegian politician for the Capitalist Party[2] and formerly the Progress Party who served as the Norwegian Minister of Fisheries from 2015 to 2018. Sandberg was a member of the Norwegian parliament from 1997 to 2017 (2005–2017 from the Sør-Trøndelag constituency, and before that from Nord-Trøndelag), and served as chair of the parliamentary standing committees on Justice, and Transport and Communications. He has additionally held the position of first deputy leader of the Progress Party from 2006 to 2018. In 1997 he was convicted of assault and battery of an asylum seeker. His status as a convicted felon has made him controversial in Norwegian politics.[3]
An outspoken politician with a blue-collar working background, Sandberg has stoked controversy on numerous occasions, and has been described, by former party chairman Carl I. Hagen as well as the media, as the "proto-typical Progress Party person" (Norwegian: Ur-FrP'eren).[4][5]