New fisheries minister for Norway

Erna Solberg, head of Norway’s Conservative Party, could finally claim the title of the country’s prime minister on Wednesday. After the obligatory and formal transfer of power at the Royal Palace, Solberg introduced her new, slightly smaller cabinet of 17 ministers from the Conservatives and the Progress Party.

Media speculation had been running high for days, with Norwegian newspapers, websites and broadcast outlets trying hard to scoop one another with leaks from the cabinet selection process.

The confirmed result: Solberg, from Bergen, will lead a government made up of nine women and nine men, including herself, who will lead some re-organized ministries. Solberg and her government partner Siv Jensen, leader of the Progress Party, will dissolve the ministry that was in charge of renewal, administration and churches, transferring their duties to other ministries. Some of the duties of the fisheries ministry will be taken over by the transport ministry, including coastal issues, while EU issues will move from the foreign ministry to the Office of the Prime Minister.

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