| Sylvi Listhaug | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 December 1977 Ørskog, Møre og Romsdal |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Political party | Progress Party |
| Residence | Oslo |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Teacher |
| Religion | Church of Norway[1][2] |
Sylvi Listhaug (born 25 December 1977) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party, since 2006 as city commissioner of welfare and social services in the city government of Oslo.
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Listhaug was born and raised in Ørskog, Møre og Romsdal. Her father worked within transport, and her mother ran the family farm. She has two twin siblings.[1] She is married and have one child.[3]
Listhaug has explained that she became aware of the Progress Party when she was sixteen years old and watched John Alvheim of the party on television. She was initially mostly attracted to the party's policies on care for the elderly and crime.[4]
She started her political career locally in Ørskog.[4] Eventually she came in the position of deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Møre og Romsdal during the terms 2001–2005 and 2005–2009, and from Oslo from 2009.[5] In 2006 she became city commissioner (byråd) of welfare and social services in the city government of Oslo. She had been secretary to the previous commissioner Margaret Eckbo.
Proposals by Listhaug include a stricter policy on psychiatric patients[6] and hanging up posters of convicted rapists in their local community.[7] She has also proposed to close down the annual gay parade in Oslo as she suggested that "half and almost wholly naked people dancing around in the streets of Oslo" could rather lead to less tolerance of homosexuals.[8] She also oppose same-sex marriage[9] and wants to reverse the law that implemented it in Norway.[2]
She believe that the elderly should have legal rights to a placed in private nursing homes paid by public funding. She seek a "far more restrictive" immigration policy than that by the Red-Green government, and that integration has to become better by having stricter demands on people who move to Norway.[3] She is also strongly supportive of Israel, and wants to move the Norwegian embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.[2]
She support the separation of the church and state as she has seen it work good in the USA, pointing to religion having a larger place in the culture there than in Norway. She has herself considered leaving the Church of Norway because of the Red-Green government's interventionist policy on appointment of bishops.[2]
According to E24 Næringsliv, her ideology is a mix of a Midwest Republican and late Liberal Party/Moderate Liberal Party politician Søren Jaabæk.[10] She has said herself that she is social conservative and economically liberal.[2]
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by Margaret Eckbo |
Oslo City Commissioner of Welfare and Social Services 2006–present |
Incumbent |