Sigbjørn Gjelsvik

Sigbjørn Gjelsvik (born 30 March 1974) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He was elected to Parliament in 2017.[1]

Sigbjørn Gjelsvik
Gjelsvik in 2017
Member of the Storting
Assumed office
1 October 2017
ConstituencyAkershus
Personal details
Born (1974-03-30) 30 March 1974
Naustdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
NationalityNorwegian
Political partyCentre

Personal life and education

Gjeslvik was born in Naustdal in Sogn og Fjordane on 30 March 1974.[2] He has studied economics and resource management at the Norwegian University of Agricultural Sciences.[2] He currently lives in Sørum.

Political career

Youth career

He has been politically active in the Centre Party and Nei til EU since 1992. In 1995, he became a member of Naustdal municipal council and Sogn og Fjordane county council. In 1996, he walked 440 km on foot from Oslo to Loen in protest against the fact that as a student in Oslo he was not allowed to cover travel expenses at municipal board meetings. The case ended with County Governor agreeing with Gjelsvik that he should have his travel expenses covered. Gjelsvik sat on the county board for the Centre Youth in Sogn og Fjordane from 1992 to 1995 and on the Centre Youth's central board from 1994 to 2000. He was the Centre Youth's political deputy leader from 1997 to 1998 and leader from 1998 to 2000. He was also leader in Nei til EU from 1999 to 2004 and was thus only 25 years old when he was elected in 1998.

Parliament

Gjelsvik was elected to the Storting from Akershus in the 2017 election.[3] Prior to this, he was employed as head of the secretariat for the Centre Party's parliamentary group. He successfully sought re-election to the Storting in the 2021 election.[4]

He also serves as the Centre Party's financial spokesperson.[5]

Following the 2021 election, Gjelsvik was brought in by party leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, along with parliamentary leader Marit Arnstad, to assist in the subsequent government negotations with the Labour Party following the Socialist Left Party's withdrawal from the negotiations.[6] Gjelsvik was also mentioned as a strong candidate to become minister of finance, second to Marit Arnstad.[7] However, after Jonas Gahr Støre rejected his appointment, Vedum himself became a more probable candidate to the post. The Labour Party had promted that the Centre Party should rather appoint someone from their leadership to the post, a position Gjelsvik did not hold.[8][9]

Other

He has also been the project manager for "Alternatives to the current EEA agreement". In 2020, he was convicted on delivering insufficient information to the buyer of a property, and ordered to pay 400,000 kr in damages.[10]

References
  1. "Gjelsvik, Sigbjørn". stortinget.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  2. Garvik, Olav; Tvedt, Knut Are. "Sigbjørn Gjelsvik". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  3. "Han er den femte stortingsrepresentanten vår" (in Norwegian). NRK Vestland. 14 September 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  4. "Disse stortingspolitikerne vil sitte i en ny periode" (in Norwegian). Nationen. 7 May 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  5. "Tomprat på tomgang" (in Norwegian). Svalbardposten. 25 August 2021. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  6. "Gjelsvik og Arnstad blir Vedums forhandlingsmakkere" (in Norwegian). ABC Nyheter. 29 September 2021. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  7. "Ny kabal: Dette kan bli Støres statsråder" (in Norwegian). Nettavisen. 1 October 2021. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  8. "Opplysninger til VG: Støre har bedt Vedum ta finansministerjobben" (in Norwegian). VG. 12 October 2021. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  9. "Pollestad og Gjelsvik ikke en del av regjeringen" (in Norwegian). TV 2 . 13 October 2021. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  10. "Stortingsrepresentant dømt til å betale 400.000 kroner etter boligsalg" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten . 20 November 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
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