Eirik Lae Solberg is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party

Conservative Party of Norway

The Conservative Party is a Norwegian political party. The current leader is Erna Solberg. The party was since the 1920s consistently the second largest party in Norway, but has been surpassed by the growth of the Progress Party in the late 1990s and 2000s...

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He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Buskerud

Buskerud

is a county in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark, and Vestfold. The county administration is located in Drammen.-Geography:...

 during the term 1993–1997.

During the second cabinet Bondevik

Second cabinet Bondevik

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, Solberg was political advisor in the Ministry of Trade and Industry

Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry

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 from 2001 to March 2004, and State Secretary in the Ministry of Work Affairs and Administration

Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration and Reform

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(renamed Ministry of Modernisation in June 2004) from March 2004 to 2005. In the elections that year, the second cabinet Bondevik fell, thus Solberg lost his position.