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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 ben 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,[6] when Kragerø had been included in the Register for Governmental Approval of Financial Obligations (the ROBEK list),[7] and the county governor had not approved the municipal budget for 2024.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Therkelsen, Charlotte (1981-)". stortinget.no (in Norwegian). 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. ^ a b Buaas, Tom Ole (13 September 2024). "Kommuner lever på kreditt: – Varsellampene bør på". nrk.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  7. ^ Kolve, André Rajan (21 February 2024). "Kragerø på ROBEK-lista: – En varslet katastrofe" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 15 September 2024.