Storting representative and former Minister of Culture and Equality Anette Trettebergstuen (Ap) will not seek re-election to the Storting in 2025.
It reports Hamar Arbeiderblad Monday evening. To the newspaper, Trettebergstuen says that the decision has nothing to do with her stepping down as minister in 2023 as a result of having given office to people she was incompetent to deal with.
– If it is not about the last year, then what is the reason, asks Hamar Arbeiderblad.
Trettebergstuen answers:
– So it has nothing to do with it. Nor is it about me being demotivated. It is about the fact that I have now sat for 20 years in the Storting and that it is a very long time. The policy needs replacements. In terms of pleasure, I could do this all my life, but this is not a job, it is a position of trust. I joined as a 24-year-old and I am now 42 and I have a son who has started school and therefore I live in Oslo. It’s time now after 20 years.
To a new question from Hamar Arbeiderblad, Trettebergstuen replies:
– I can’t do anything about that. So, the last year has been shit. I left a job that I wasn’t finished with, but the last year has also given me confirmation of how much politics drives me and how much I love politics.
Trettebergstuen is not the only one who has announced that she does not want re-election to the Storting recently. So did Carl I. Hagen on Monday.
Høyre’s deputy leader Tina Bru has also done the same, as has SV’s Kari Elisabeth Kaski.