Appointment Jens Stoltenberg au new finance minister was welcomed in Norway with surprise, although commentators at the same time show its advantages and good preparation for a fresh role. The erstwhile president of the Norwegian central bank Oeystein Olsen called it “good news for Norway‘.
The Prime Minister’s decision was enthusiastically commented by the long-standing president of the Norwegian Business Organization. “I am impressed that the Prime Minister yet dismissed the Centre organization from power and that he now has a strong squad that will radically change the results of the Labour organization elections,” he said. Jens Ulltveit-Moe.
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Norwegian commentators item in peculiar Stoltenberg's undisputed designation and position internationally. Simultaneously Former NATO Chief It is associated with the best years lost in Labour organization polls.
Parliamentary elections in Norway will take place in September, and, according to any commentators, after the appointment of the fresh Minister of Finance, the so-called. Stoltenberg Effect.
Jens Stoltenberg with a fresh function. It's hope for the ruling party.
Information about the file for Stoltenberg appears at a hard minute for the ruling Labour Party. Last week about coalition breakdown the Ministry of Finance has ceased to direct the leader of the Centre Party, Trygve Slagsvold Vedum.
Just before the September election, the centre-right coalition besides notes declines in polls.
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Media indicates that the presence of erstwhile NATO chief in the government can improve the group's ratings due to the fact that among the Norwegians was very popular both during and after his word of office.
Before the Tuesday gathering with Prime Minister and Labour organization chief Stoltenberg joked to journalists: "You can't get free of me that easily.‘.
Former NATO chief in the Norwegian government. Trump Whisperer
Stoltenberg is an experienced Labour organization politician and Former Prime Minister of Norway between 2000 and 2001 and 2005 and 2013. He headed the Western Military Alliance for a decade, including during U.S. president Donald Trump's first term, and resigned from his post last year.
By education he is an economist and served as Minister of Finance from 1996 to 1997. It is widely seen as a pragmatic centrist.
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During his word in NATO, Stoltenberg gained the nickname "Trump charmer“ due to the fact that he managed to convince Donald Trump to stay in the Alliance, even though the then president of the United States complained that allies spent besides small on defense, and threatened to retreat the United States from the Alliance.
In 2022 Stoltenberg was to take the position of President central bank of Norway, but he did not accept this function due to the fact that then president of the United States Joe Biden He asked him to stay in charge of NATO.
