- Helga Pedersen (Norway)
Helga Pedersen (born
13 January 1973 inSør-Varanger ) is the deputy leader for theNorwegian Labour Party .From April to October 2001, during the
first cabinet Stoltenberg , she was appointed political advisor in the Ministry of Industry and Trade. In 2005, during thesecond cabinet Stoltenberg , she was appointed Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs. Pedersen is the first politician ofSámi descent to have been member of any country's government, and also the first member of any ethnic minority hold a place in the Norwegian government.On the local level she was a deputy member of
Finnmark county council from 1999 to 2003, and county mayor from 2003 to 2005.In 2007 she was elected as deputy leader of the Labour Party.
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