From 2001 to 2005, when the second cabinet Bondevik held office, Foss was Minister of Finance. He also acted as Prime Minister very briefly in 2002. During this period his seat in parliament was taken by Ine Marie Eriksen.
On the local level Foss was a deputy member of Oslo city council from 1971 to 1975.
From 1973 to 1977 he was the leader of the Young Conservatives (Unge Høyre), the youth wing of the Conservative Party. Per Kristian Foss was mentioned as a possible new leader for the Conservative Party after Jan Petersen resigned in 2004, but he declined to run and instead supported Erna Solberg.[3] After Høyre struggled in elections and polls during the first years of Erna Solberg´s leadership he was also mentioned as a possible new leader,[4] men he never challenged Solberg for the leadership position. At present Foss is deputy chairman of the Conservative Party and member of the party's central board.
Per-Kristian Foss is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party and 2nd Vice President of the Storting. Foss has received much attention for being the first openly gay minister in a Norwegian government and lives in registered partnership with Jan Erik Knarbakk, whom he met in 1980. He was the first openly homosexual national leader. Foss and Knarrbakk married in 2002 in a ceremony in Sweden. "Yes, we entered a partnership at the [Norwegian] Embassy in Stockholm on 4 January (2002)."
Foss has a cand.mag. degree in political science, public law and criminology from the University of Oslo (1977) and partial graduate studies in political science.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-Kristian_Foss
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Publisher: BenBella Books (September 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933771879
ISBN-13: 978-1933771878
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