Per-Kristian Foss

Per-Kristian Foss (born July 19, 1950) is the Norwegian Minister of Finance. He has drawn much attention for being the first openly gay minister in a Norwegian government, and lives in a registered partnership.

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Foss has a Cand.mag.-degree (political science, public justice and criminology) from the University of Oslo (1977) and partial graduate studies in political science. For the moment he is the deputy chairman of H?yre (the Conservative Party) and member of H?yre?s central board. He has been a member of the Norwegian Parliament (Storting), for Oslo, since 1981.

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Though long expected to take over the chairmanship of H?yre after Jan Petersen, the sudden ascendancy of Erna Solberg prevented this from happening.

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July 19: July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining....

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