1. Lene Westgaard-Halle was an active alpinist in Drammen Slalom Club for many years and is the daughter of national team alpinist Dag Lars Westgaard.
13 Facts About Lene Westgaard-Halle
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Lene Westgaard-Halle graduated from Hawera High School in New Zealand in 1997, and Drammen Gymnas in 1998.
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Lene Westgaard-Halle studied political science at the University of Oslo and took subjects at the University of Oxford.
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Lene Westgaard-Halle led Drammen European Youth from 2001 to 2003, Buskerud Young Conservatives from 2002 to 2004 and the Moderate group in the Student Parliament at the University of Oslo from 2005 to 2007.
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Lene Westgaard-Halle sat in the leadership of the student parliament.
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Lene Westgaard-Halle sat for 10 years as a representative in Drammen city council and as a member of the chairmanship and school committee, and in Buskerud county council where she was a member of the main committee for education and the county committee.
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Lene Westgaard-Halle was for several years a member of Drammen Conservative's main board and the board of Buskerud Conservatives.
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Lene Westgaard-Halle has been a member of several Executive Boards, amongst them, the Executive Boards of Buskerud Hospital, and the executive board of the University of Oslo.
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Lene Westgaard-Halle is a member of the Storting, the Norwegian parliament, since 2017, representing Vestfold.
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Lene Westgaard-Halle represented Buskerud as a deputy member from 2005 to 2009.
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On 9 April 2021, marking 81 years since the German occupation of Norway, Lene Westgaard-Halle supported minister of culture Abid Raja's criticism of Carl Bildt's claiming the Swedish defence forces were stronger than those of Norway and Denmark.
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Lene Westgaard-Halle stated Sweden looked away and let "Hitler invade Norway", further stating that she hopes that "this is not the way Sweden remembers the most horrible day in Norwegian history".
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Lene Westgaard-Halle was supported by Progress Party member of parliament Erlend Wiborg, who said that "I think Margaret Thatcher summarised your participation in the war pretty well".