The job as Minister of Health and Care is vacant after Ingvild Kjerkol (Ap) has to go after the plagiarism case.
According to several media outlets, the reshuffle in the government is clear, and after that, among other things VG , TV 2 and NRK experienced Jan Christian Vestre (Ap) takes over the job as for Kjerkol. This also has The daily newspaper written previously.
According to what the media know, today’s fisheries minister Cecilie Myrseth (Ap) will take over from Vestre as industry minister, while Marianne Sivertsen Næss (Ap) will take over Myrseth’s job as fisheries minister.
Sivertsen Næss currently sits as a parliamentary representative for Finnmark. She was elected in 2021 and is the leader of the energy and environment committee. She has also been AP’s energy and environmental policy spokesperson for the past two years.
Before she entered the Storting, Sivertsen Næss was mayor of Hammerfest from 2019.
According to what the newspapers know, the appointments will take place in an extraordinary Cabinet meeting at the Palace on Friday afternoon.