Solveig Horne was born on 12 January 1969 and is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party who served as Minister of Children and Equality in the Solberg Cabinet from 2013 to 2018.
19 Facts About Solveig Horne
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Solveig Horne was an MP for Rogaland from 2005 to 2021.
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Solveig Horne has been an elected official since 1995, and was elected to the Storting, the Norwegian parliament, from Rogaland in the 2005 election, and was re-elected for three consecutive terms in 2009,2013 and 2017.
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Solveig Horne grew up in the nearby municipality of Etne in the Sunnhordland region, as the oldest of five sisters.
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Solveig Horne attended elementary and high school in Etne, and after graduating lower secondary school, she moved out of her parents' house and into a small student apartment in Sandnes in order to attend upper secondary school.
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Solveig Horne attended two upper secondary schools, specializing in vocational education.
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Active in politics since the mid-1990s, Solveig Horne was elected member of the executive committee of Sola municipal council after the 1995 local elections, and was a member of the Rogaland county council from 1999 to 2005.
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Solveig Horne has later described how she was elected to her first position due to affirmative action, saying that a male candidate was passed over because the party needed to meet a female representative in order to achieve gender balance.
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Solveig Horne was re-elected in the 2009 parliamentary election, which again saw unprecedented gains for the Progress Party.
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Solveig Horne was re-elected in both 2013 and 2017.
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On 6 March 2020, Solveig Horne announced that she wouldn't seek re-election in the 2021 election.
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On 16 October 2013, after the defeat of the Red-Green Coalition and establishment of the Conservative-led Solberg's Cabinet, Solveig Horne was appointed Minister of Children of Equality, replacing Inga Marte Thorkildsen from the Socialist Left Party.
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Solveig Horne announced a shift away from her predecessors family policy, announcing that she would focus on strengthening and protecting the family, as well as reducing divorce rates.
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Solveig Horne explained that "protection of the family has previously been a low priority, this is something we will now strengthen".
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Solveig Horne called for the introduction of the American custom of having a "date night" once a week in order to cultivate the marriage.
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Solveig Horne stated the importance of finding pockets of time where "parents can be just lovers again".
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Solveig Horne was succeeded by Conservative Linda Cathrine Hofstad Helleland on 17 January 2018 after the Liberal Party joined the Solberg Cabinet.
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Solveig Horne met her first husband, Steinar Kolnes, after moving to Sandnes at the age of 16.
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Solveig Horne married him in 1987 at the age of 18.