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Charlotte Therkelsen

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Charlotte Therkelsen
Born (1981-07-29) 29 July 1981 (age 43)[1]
NationalityNorwegian
OccupationPolitician
Political partyRed

Charlotte Therkelsen (born 29 July 1981) is a Norwegian politician representing the Red Party. She has been a deputy representative to the Storting since 2021, the party's second deputy leader since 2023, and the mayor of Kragerø since 2023.

Political career

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Parliament

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A member of the Red Party, Therkelsen was elected deputy representative to the Storting from the constituency of Telemark for the period 2021–2025.[1]

Deputy party leader

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She was elected second deputy leader for the Red Party in April 2023.[2]

Local politics

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Therkelsen was deputy mayor in Kragerø from 2015 to 2019.[3] She was elected mayor of Kragerø from 2023.[4][5]

In September 2024, she expressed that the municipality of Kragerø was in a difficult economic situation, when Kragerø had been included in the Register for Governmental Approval of Financial Obligations (the ROBEK list), and the county governor had not approved the municipal budget for 2024.[6][7]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Charlotte Therkelsen" (in Norwegian). Storting. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Ny nestleder og partisekretær i Rødt". Altinget (in Norwegian). 22 April 2023. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  3. ^ Scheistrøen, Line (29 August 2019). "Hvorfor er Rødt så store i Kragerø? Her er noe av grunnen". Fri Fagbevegelse (in Norwegian). Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  4. ^ Lilleås, Heidi Schei (23 April 2023). "Vil bli ordfører – og kutte lønnen med 260.000". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  5. ^ Bohlin, Christopher (20 October 2023). "Charlotte Therkelsen (R) er ny ordfører". kragero.kommune.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  6. ^ Kolve, André Rajan (21 February 2024). "Kragerø på ROBEK-lista: – En varslet katastrofe" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 15 September 2024.
  7. ^ Buaas, Tom Ole (13 September 2024). "Kommuner lever på kreditt: – Varsellampene bør på". nrk.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 14 September 2024.