Solveig Horne
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Solveig Horne MP |
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| Minister of Children and Equality | |
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Assumed office 16 October 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Erna Solberg |
| Preceded by | Inga Marte Thorkildsen |
| Member of the Norwegian Parliament | |
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Assumed office 11 September 2005 |
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| Constituency | Rogaland |
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12 January 1969 Haugesund, Rogaland, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Political party | Progress Party |
| Spouse(s) | Steinar Kolnes (m. 1987; div. 2003) |
| Children | 2 |
| Religion | Lutheranism |
Solveig Horne (born 12 January 1969) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party who has been Minister of Children and Equality in the Solberg Cabinet since 2013.
She has been an elected official since 1995, and was elected to the Storting, the Norwegian parliament, from Rogaland in the 2005 election, and has been re-elected for two consecutive terms in 2009 and 2013.
Born 12 January 1969 in Haugesund, Rogaland, Horne is the daughter of automobile mechanic Jon Tormod Horne (born 1942) and his wife Ingebjørg Marie (née Stødle, born 1942), a registered nurse. She grew up in the nearby municipality of Etne in the Sunnhordland region, as the oldest of five sisters.
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.
She attended two upper secondary schools, specializing in vocational education. From 1985 to 1987 she enrolled in Gand Upper Secondary School in Sandnes, while her senior year in 1988 was spent at Hinna Upper Secondary School in nearby Stavanger. After graduating from high school, she began an internship with a local sales cooperative. In 1990 she was officially certified as a butcher, an occupation she held for six years, until 1996 when she switched to full-time politics.
Active in politics since the mid-1990s, 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. She 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. This made her question her competency, and since then she has been a staunch opponent of affirmative action.
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