Anne Marit Bjørnflaten is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

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Between 2000 and 2001, during Stoltenberg's first cabinet, Bjørnflaten was appointed political advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the foreign ministry of the Kingdom of Norway...

. She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Troms

Troms

or Romsa is a county in North Norway, bordering Finnmark to the northeast and Nordland in the southwest. To the south is Norrbotten Län in Sweden and further southeast is a shorter border with Lapland Province in Finland. To the west is the Norwegian Sea...

 in 2005. She is the leader of the justice committee in the Norwegian Parliament.

On the local level, Bjørnflaten was a member of the executive committee of Tromsø

Tromsø

Tromsø is a city and municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø.Tromsø city is the ninth largest urban area in Norway by population, and the seventh largest city in Norway by population...

municipality council from 2003 to 2005. From 1991 to 1995 she was a member of Troms county council. She was a member of the Labour Party central board from 2002 to 2005.