Erling Lae
Erling Lae | |
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![]() Lae in 2007 | |
Governor of Vestfold | |
In office 1 June 2010 – 30 June 2016 | |
Monarch | Harald V |
Prime Minister | Jens Stoltenberg Erna Solberg |
Preceded by | Mona Røkke |
Succeeded by | Per Arne Olsen |
Second Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party | |
In office 27 April 2008 – 9 May 2010 | |
Leader | Erna Solberg |
Preceded by | Jan Tore Sanner |
Succeeded by | Bent Høie |
Governing Mayor of Oslo | |
In office 29 November 2000 – 29 September 2009 | |
Deputy | Hilde Barstad Peter N. Myhre Sylvi Listhaug |
Mayor | Per Ditlev-Simonsen Svenn Kristiansen Fabian Stang |
Preceded by | Fritz Huitfeldt |
Succeeded by | Stian Berger Røsland |
Oslo City Commissioner of the Elderly and Districts | |
In office 15 January 1997 – 29 November 2000 | |
Governing Mayor | Fritz Huitfeldt |
Preceded by | Torild Lien Utvik |
Succeeded by | Bård Folke Fredriksen |
Personal details | |
Born | Oslo,Norway | 16 March 1947
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse | Jens Torstein Olsen |
Erling Lae(born 16 March 1947) is aNorwegianpolitician for theConservative Party.
He was born inOslo,is acand.philol.by education and formerly worked as a journalist. From 1981 to 1985 he was a political advisor in theMinistry of Consumer Affairs and Administration.He was elected toOslocity council in 1991, and was a city commissioner between 1997 and 2000. From 2000 to 2009 he was the governing mayor of Oslo. As such he headed the executive branch of the city government in the capital city of Norway.[1]
He was a deputy leader of the Conservative Party from 2008 to 2010.[1]In 2010 he was announced as the newcounty governor of Vestfold,succeedingMona Røkke.[2]He was succeeded in June 2016 by second deputy leader of theProgress Party,Per Arne Olsen.[3]
Lae isopenlygay,[4]and was named as the most powerful homosexual man in Norway three years in a row by queer websiteGaysir,in 2006 through 2008.[5]He is married to Jens Torstein Olsen, aLutheranminister,[6]with whom he had lived for 26 years beforesame-sex marriagewaslegalized in Norwayin 2009.[7] In June later that year, Lae and his husband travelled toVilnius,Lithuaniato protest after Vilnius MayorVilius Navickas condemnedgay pride paradesin the city centre, along with thegovernment of Lithuaniapassing a law banning "homosexual advertising".[8]
References
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- ^Ulrichsen, Henrik (12 March 2010)."Erling Lae ny fylkesmann".Tønsbergs Blad(in Norwegian). Archived fromthe originalon 15 March 2010.Retrieved14 March2010.
- ^"Per Arne Olsen ny fylkesmann i Vestfold"[Per Arne Olsen new county governor of Vestfold].Norwegian News Agency(in Norwegian Bokmål). 3 June 2016.Archivedfrom the original on 10 June 2016 – viaAdresseavisen.
- ^Mo, Ida Svingen (18 June 2007)."Lae hyllet i Berlin".Dagsavisen(in Norwegian). Archived fromthe originalon 10 January 2009.Retrieved14 March2010.
- ^Ghabel Lunde, Mina (25 January 2008)."- Norges mektigste homse"[- Norway's most powerful homosexual man].NRK(in Norwegian Bokmål).Archivedfrom the original on 5 April 2022.
- ^Henriksen, Marianne (15 December 2010)."Baker jula inn"[Baking for Christmas].Byavisa Sandefjord.Archived fromthe originalon 6 March 2016.
- ^Trellevik, Amund (11 June 2008)."Glad kjærligheten ikke lenger blir rangert"[Delighted love no longer being ranked].Aftenposten(in Norwegian Bokmål).Archivedfrom the original on 5 April 2022.
- ^"Мэр Осло в знак протеста привез в Литву мужа-гея"[Oslo mayor brings gay husband to protest in Lithuania].Lenta.ru(in Russian). 22 June 2009.Archivedfrom the original on 5 November 2016.