Liv Signe Navarsete

Liv Signe Navarsete
Minister of Local Government and Regional Development
In office 20 October 2009 – 16 October 2013
Prime Minister	Jens Stoltenberg
Preceded by	Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa
Succeeded by	Jan Tore Sanner
Minister of Transport and Communications
In office 17 October 2005 – 20 October 2009
Prime Minister	Jens Stoltenberg
Preceded by	Torild Skogsholm
Succeeded by	Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
In office 13 September 2005 – 12 September 2013
Constituency	Sogn og Fjordane
Personal details
Born	23 October 1958 Sogndal, Norway
Nationality	Norway
Political party	Centre Party
Alma mater	Sogn og Fjordane University College University of Bergen
Religion	Christianity[1]

Liv Signe Hundere Navarsete (born 23 October 1958 in Sogndal) was the Norwegian Minister of Local Government and Regional Development from 2009 to 2013 and has been leader of the Center Party since 2008. She first took office in 2005, serving in Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet. On 11 February she announced that she would retire as the leader of the party in April 2014. She was succeeded by Trygve Slagsvold Vedum.

She was also political advisor to the Minister of Health and Social Affairs (social affairs) from 1999 to 2000. Navarsete was appointed as leader of the Center Party in September 2008, having until then been the deputy leader.^[2]

Media

Liv Signe Navarsete has gotten several headlines during her years of office due to her temper. The first time was in April 2011 when she yelled at a woman after being accused of betraying the districts of Norway.^[3] In September 2012 she yelled at the leader of her own party's youth organization, Sandra Borch, allegedly because Borch had expressed her support for Ola Borten Moe, the deputy of the Center Party.^[4]

References

1. "Sørget for straff for religionskritikk" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2010. (Norwegian)
2. Solholm, Rolleiv (13 September 2008). "Navarsete new leader of the Agrarian Party". The Norway Post. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
3. http://www.aftenbladet.no/nyheter/politikk/Liv-Signe-Navarsete-skjelte-ut-velger-1849419.html
4. http://www.dn.no/forsiden/politikkSamfunn/article2485723.ece