Per Sandberg
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Per Sandberg MP |
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| Minister of Fisheries | |
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Assumed office 16 December 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Erna Solberg |
| Preceded by | Elisabeth Aspaker |
| Member of the Norwegian Parliament | |
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Assumed office 1 October 2005 |
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| Constituency | Sør-Trøndelag |
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In office 1 October 1997 – 30 September 2005 |
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| Constituency | Nord-Trøndelag |
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6 February 1960 Levanger, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Political party | Progress Party |
| Spouse(s) | Line Miriam Haugan |
| Children | 3 |
Per Sandberg (born 6 February 1960) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party who has served as the Norwegian Minister of Fisheries since December 2015. Sandberg has been a member of the Norwegian parliament since 1997 (since 2005 from the Sør-Trøndelag constituency, and before that from Nord-Trøndelag), and served as chair of the parliamentary standing committees on Justice, and Transport and Communications. He has additionally held the position of first deputy leader of the Progress Party since 2006.
An outspoken veteran politician with a blue-collar working background, Sandberg has stoked controversy on numerous occasions, and has been described, by former party chairman Carl I. Hagen as well as the media, as the "proto-typical Progress Party person" (Norwegian: Ur-FrP'eren).
Sandberg was born in Levanger, Nord-Trøndelag to self-employed businessman Rolf Sandberg (1926-2010) and part-time worker Rannveig Ertsås (1930–2006). He has three siblings, sister Mona, and brothers Harald and Stig (Stig committed suicide in 1997).
He has described his upbringing as "rough", partly due to his father, who he describes as being "incredibly strict and manipulative". According to Sandberg, his father would regularly lock him up in the outhouse or the cellar as punishment. He would also resort to corporal punishment on his siblings regularly. So great was the abuse, that Sanberg claims: "If my father would have acted like that today, child welfare would have been there. And it would have been an immediate takeover by the child protection services".
After finishing Upper Secondary school, he held numerous different jobs including as bartender and waiter at a Ski resort in Ustaoset, and later as a process operator at Norske Skog Skogn from 1982 to 1997, where he became the local trade union representative. In 1981 he settled in Levanger. Sandberg was in the service of UNIFIL in Southern Lebanon in 1986 during the Lebanese civil war, where he worked as a cook.
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